Svetlana Alexievich Quotes

Stalin's machine can be started up again at only a moment's notice: the same informers, the same denunciations, the same tortures. The same universal, all-devouring terror.

Svetlana Alexievich

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
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  • Birth: May 31, 1948

Topics

MomentSameUpStartedUniversal

I think that anything in life is about the middle ground.

Jillian Michaels

LifeThinkGroundAnythingMiddle

I will not be a Democrat or a Republican. They are the problem, not the solution. We need to abolish political parties in this country.

Jesse Ventura

PoliticalProblemSolutionCountry

I don't spend a lot of time watching my performances after the fact. I suck at playing video games, but I'm a fan of the creativity, the brilliance, and the possibility of the industry.

Jennifer Hale

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Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

John Henry Newman

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Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time.

Stephanie Zimbalist

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I went from being able to walk down the street and be ignored to having men whistle at me. I was an insecure young girl, and it felt good to have attention, even though it was inappropriate.

Amanda de Cadenet

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Good man! Genuine gentleman! God bless George Thompson, the great-hearted friend of my race.

Sojourner Truth

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Obama is not the messiah any longer. He is now your standard, ordinary, everyday politician who lies, who breaks promises, who's in it for himself, who can't do anything on his own. He's not qualified. All of this is becoming known, sadly, too late.

Rush Limbaugh

PromisesLateNowEverydayToo Late

It's a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.

Rowan Atkinson

BeingLikeMadonnaBitDisconcerting

Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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The mechanics of love imply some sort of bridge between the sensual and the spiritual, sometimes to the point of deification; the notion of an afterlife is implicit not only in our couplings, but also in our separations.

Joseph Brodsky

LoveSpiritualBridgeSometimesOnly

People say, 'All my son will read is 'Captain Underpants,' or 'My son is crazy about shark books, is that O.K.?' I want to be the person to say, 'Yeah, that's really O.K., as long as he's motivated to want to read.'

Jon Scieszka

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