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" Women tell things in more interesting ways. They live with more feeling. They observe themselves and their lives. Men are more impressed with action. For them, the sequence of events is more important. "

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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. "

Svetlana Alexievich

People

Women

War

" 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 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. "

" What you have to remember about Belarus is that it's a small state - it has a population of less than 10m people - and like many small states, it has to be very careful about its relationships. "

" 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. "

" I don't hate. I love the Russian people. I love the Belarusan people... I love Ukraine very much. "

" Many times, I have been shocked and frightened by human beings. I have experienced delight and revulsion. I have sometimes wanted to forget what I heard, to return to a time when I lived in ignorance. More than once, however, I have seen the sublime in people and wanted to cry. "

" 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. "

" Love is what brings us into this world. "

" I love the good Russian world, the humanitarian Russian world, but I do not love the Russian world of Beria, Stalin, and Shoigu. "

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

" My wish is to humanize history. "

Svetlana Alexievich

Wish

History

" My father was an important person, the director of the school. He could talk to anybody - simple or educated. He liked chess, fishing, and beautiful women. "

" I couldn't get published for three years. Then the times changed: glasnost, perestroika. So, for three years, I wasn't allowed to publish 'The Unwomanly Face of War,' but then it changed. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I don't think we should be deceived that art is such a moral thing. "

" Journalists do not write about human feelings. "

" Every one of his characters has their own idea, their own thing they want to express. Dostoevsky just lets them do it. "

" 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 me, people are like the black boxes found in the debris of airplane crashes. "

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

" There are horrible periods in which entire nations sink into the plague of darkness and hatred. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" It's very important to listen when someone is speaking up. I always keep my ear to the ground. "

Svetlana Alexievich

Always

Important

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

" 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. "