Svetlana Alexievich Quotes

Lukashenko is very much like Trump, because democracy and Trump are incompatible things.
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.
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.
My Ukrainian grandmother would tell amazing stories. She lost her father, and as children, we would always listen to her stories.
My wish is to humanize history.
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.
No book about Soviet sacrifice was as strong as the women's stories I heard as a child.
Nobody thought the Soviet Union would collapse; it was a shock for everyone.
Nothing, not even human life, is more precious to us than our myths about ourselves.
People always speak beautifully when they are in love or close to death.
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.
Putin is not a politician. Putin is a KGB agent. And whatever he does is provocations, which KGB is usually involved in.
Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of a great empire.
Reality has always attracted me like a magnet; it tortured and hypnotized me. I wanted to capture it on paper.
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.
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.
Ten to 15 of my childhood friends from Minsk died of cancer. Chernobyl kills.
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.
The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being.
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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