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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. "

Svetlana Alexievich

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" I collect the everyday life of feelings, thoughts, and words. I collect the life of my time. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Love is what brings us into this world. "

" I love how humans talk. "

" 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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" All of history misses out on the history of the soul. Human passions are so often not included in history. "

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" We thought we'd leave communism behind, and everything would turn out fine. But it turns out you can't leave this and become free, because these people don't understand what freedom is. "

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