- Journalist | May 31, 1948 -
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.
Svetlana Alexievich
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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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A man without a memory is only capable of doing evil, nothing else but evil.
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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.
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I can't rid myself of the feeling that war is a product of the male nature.
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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 love how humans talk.
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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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For me, people are like the black boxes found in the debris of airplane crashes.
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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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Every one of his characters has their own idea, their own thing they want to express. Dostoevsky just lets them do it.
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Lukashenko is very much like Trump, because democracy and Trump are incompatible things.
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