- Journalist | May 31, 1948 -
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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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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I take a very long time to write my books - from five to ten years.
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For money, I can buy one thing: I buy freedom.
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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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My wish is to humanize history.
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I name the genre that I write in as 'novel of voices.'
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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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'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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It's very important to listen when someone is speaking up. I always keep my ear to the ground.
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Hatred, I think, is an organism that penetrates our skin in a mythic fashion and does not leave.
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We are all prisoners of the ideas of the times we live in.
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