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" What I'm concerned with is what I would call the missing history - the invisible imprint of our stay on Earth and in time. "
Svetlana Alexievich
Time
Earth
History
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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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" 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. "
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" I'm interested in love and in death. Everything evolves from these things. "
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" My Ukrainian grandmother would tell amazing stories. She lost her father, and as children, we would always listen to her stories. "
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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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" I love the good Russian world, the humanitarian Russian world, but I do not love the Russian world of Beria, Stalin, and Shoigu. "
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" For money, I can buy one thing: I buy freedom. "
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" Love is what brings us into this world. "
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" I see the world as voices, as colors, as it were. From book to book, I change, the subjects change, but the narrative thread remains the same. "
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" Lukashenko is very much like Trump, because democracy and Trump are incompatible things. "
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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. "
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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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" I love the lone human voice. It is my greatest love and passion. "
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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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" 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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" The subjects I wanted to write about - the mystery of the human soul, evil - didn't interest newspapers, and news reporting bored me. "
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" 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. "
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" My writing is not just all facts and voices. I strive to create a text that works as a sign, pointing out undercurrents that lie beneath the facts. "
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" I believe that in the 21st century, we should arm ourselves with ideas. "
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" 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. "
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" When people talk, it matters how they place words next to each other. "
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" I don't love great ideas. I love the little human being. "
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" I used to live in a village, and I always loved listening to old people. Unfortunately, it was always women who were talking, because after the war, very few men were around. I spent my entire life living in the village. The village is always talking about itself; people are talking to each other as the village makes sense of itself. "
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" No book about Soviet sacrifice was as strong as the women's stories I heard as a child. "
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