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" The subjects I wanted to write about - the mystery of the human soul, evil - didn't interest newspapers, and news reporting bored me. "

Svetlana Alexievich

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" Ten to 15 of my childhood friends from Minsk died of cancer. Chernobyl kills. "

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" Women are the most denigrated social group in the Soviet Union. The idea of women's emancipation is only a slogan in - but also, I should say, in many places outside - the Soviet Union. But especially in the militaristic Soviet society, people only thought of life in terms of struggle and the workers' toil. "

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" 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. "

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" America is a remarkable country, but I have a feeling that it's a different country after 9/11. "

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" 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. "

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" Communism has not died. We naively thought in the '90s we had buried communism, but this is not true. It is not dead, and it will be coming back. "

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" What is life about? Two things: love and death. "

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

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" In the post-Soviet era, instead of freedom, various stripes of autocratic-totalitarianism have flourished: Russian, Belarusian, Kazakh... We are finding our way out from under the debris of the 'Red Empire' slowly and tentatively. "

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" In the West, people demonize Putin. They do not understand that there is a collective Putin, consisting of some millions of people who do not want to be humiliated by the West. There is a little piece of Putin in everyone. "

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" We were romantics in the 1990s and thought that communism was dead. But 10 years passed, and Putin came, and it became obvious that the process is reversible; that communism will, to varying degrees, return again and again. "

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" I'm interested in love and in death. Everything evolves from these things. "

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" I do not remember any questions in my childhood other than questions about death and about loss, and it was clear that the books that filled the house were not as interesting as the conversations outside. "

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" Showing just the dark side doesn't always work. The important thing is to show what we can learn from dark things, what good we find there. "

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" People always speak beautifully when they are in love or close to death. "

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" 'Women's' war has its own colors, its own smells, its own lighting, and its own range of feelings. There are no heroes and incredible feats; there are simply people who are busy doing inhumanly human things. "

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" I take a very long time to write my books - from five to ten years. "

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

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" To be in conflict with the authorities is one thing. We Russian writers have got used to that. But to be in conflict with your own people - that is truly terrible. "

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" I have always grappled with the fact that the truth cannot be packaged into one soul or one mind alone. It is something fragmented: there is so much to it; the truth is varied and scattered across the world. "

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" You might say that my work is just simply lying on the ground, and I go and I gather it, and I pick it up, and I put it together. "

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

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" 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. "

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" We, people of socialism, are not like others. We have our peculiar ideas about heroes and martyrs. "

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" All our lives, we fight for certain ideals, and they get diluted, and then we have to fight for them again. "

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

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