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" Putin has mobilized and gathered the desires of millions upon millions of people who have been lied to, cheated, who lost out in the new order of things - and in each of these people is a bit of Putin. They have come together to make the image we know as Putin. Putin himself is just the tip of an iceberg. "

Svetlana Alexievich

People

Together

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" I was always meant to study the humanities; I was no good at math or sciences. When it came time for me to work, it was Soviet times, and journalism wasn't that free or interesting of a space. There was a lot of censorship; it was difficult. "

" I'm interested in the history of the soul: the everyday life of the soul, the things that the big picture of history usually omits - or disdains. "

" Being in the public eye is easy for me because I come from a family of four generations of teachers, so I'm used to being around books and discussions. But to write, I very much need to be alone. "

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" We are all prisoners of the ideas of the times we live in. "

" Hatred will always give birth to more and more hate, and love has the power to demolish the borders between us. "

" What I'm concerned with is what I would call the missing history - the invisible imprint of our stay on Earth and in time. "

" We need a philosophy for humans and nature to live together. "

" When I was a child, women spoke to me of how all they had was their memories, how their husbands went to war and never came back, so many tragedies. That chorus of voices filled my consciousness. It was part of life itself. "

Svetlana Alexievich

Memories

Life

" I was born in a big city - Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine - but when I was a child, my father moved us back to his homeland in Minsk. "

" Nothing, not even human life, is more precious to us than our myths about ourselves. "

" I don't want to be like other authors and say that there are only a few story lines in literature. A story is like a human face. We have as many stories as human faces. You might have similar facial features, but they're all a little different. "

" I love the lone human voice. It is my greatest love and passion. "

" The books that I'm writing, you can write them only when you're amongst your people. You're not going to find it on the Internet. You're not going to hear it there. "

" Freedom is not an instantaneous holiday, as we once dreamed. It is a road. A long road. We know this now. "

" Stalin's machine can be started up again at only a moment's notice: the same informers, the same denunciations, the same tortures. The same universal, all-devouring terror. "

Svetlana Alexievich

Only

Again

" There is this tradition, stretching back to Tacitus and Plutarch, that history belongs to the heroes, the emperors. But I grew up among simple people, and their stories just shattered me. It was painful that no one but me was listening to them. "

Svetlana Alexievich

People

History

" In apartments and cottages, on the street and in the train... I listen... More and more, I turn into one large ear, always turning to another person. "

" For money, I can buy one thing: I buy freedom. "

" Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of a great empire. "

" There are many oral historians in America, but my books are made using the rules of novel writing. I have a beginning, a plot, characters. "

" I've been searching for a genre that would be most adequate to my vision of the world to convey how my ear hears and my eyes see life. I tried this and that, and finally, I chose a genre where human voices speak for themselves. But I don't just record a dry history of events and facts; I'm writing a history of human feelings. "

" My Ukrainian grandmother would tell amazing stories. She lost her father, and as children, we would always listen to her stories. "

" Journalists do not write about human feelings. "

" I always aim to understand how much humanity is contained in each human being and how I can protect this humanity in a person. "

" I believe that in the 21st century, we should arm ourselves with ideas. "

" Putin is not a politician. Putin is a KGB agent. And whatever he does is provocations, which KGB is usually involved in. "

Svetlana Alexievich

Politician

Whatever

" Nobody thought the Soviet Union would collapse; it was a shock for everyone. "

" I will never write fiction. "

" I write my books at moments of shock. I meet people in extremis and their stories are highly emotionally charged. "