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Svetlana Alexievich

Journalist

Born: May 31, 1948

Always Life Love People War Women

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I name the genre that I write in as 'novel of voices.' Svetlana Alexievich

Voices Write Name Genre Novel

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. Svetlana Alexievich

Truth Alone Soul Truth Is World Mind Fragmented Something Scattered Varied Fact Always Cannot Packaged Much Across

Hatred, I think, is an organism that penetrates our skin in a mythic fashion and does not leave. Svetlana Alexievich

Fashion Hatred Skin Think Our Mythic Does Leave Organism

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

Darkness Hatred Entire Horrible Periods Sink Nations Which Plague

I write my books at moments of shock. I meet people in extremis and their stories are highly emotionally charged. Svetlana Alexievich

People Meet Books Charged Write Emotionally Highly Shock Stories Moments

Communism has not died. We naively thought in the '90s we had buried communism, but this is not true. It is not dead, and it will be coming back. Svetlana Alexievich

Communism Will Thought Back Had True Dead Coming Died Buried

Belarus is a closed, authoritarian system, and the theme of Chernobyl is also a closed topic. Svetlana Alexievich

Closed Topic System Also Authoritarian Theme

There is no need to give in to the compromise that totalitarian regimes always count on. Svetlana Alexievich

Totalitarian Give Compromise Count Always Regimes Need

I love to sit on my own and think, not to be photographed all the time. Svetlana Alexievich

Love Time Sit Own Think Photographed My Own

I can't rid myself of the feeling that war is a product of the male nature. Svetlana Alexievich

War Myself Nature Feeling Male Product Rid

I love how humans talk. Svetlana Alexievich

Love Talk How Humans

No book about Soviet sacrifice was as strong as the women's stories I heard as a child. Svetlana Alexievich

Women Book Strong Sacrifice About Heard Child Soviet Stories

For me, people are like the black boxes found in the debris of airplane crashes. Svetlana Alexievich

Me People Black Airplane Like Boxes Debris Crashes Found

Women are the most denigrated social group in the Soviet Union. The idea of women's emancipation is only a slogan in - but also, I should say, in many places outside - the Soviet Union. But especially in the militaristic Soviet society, people only thought of life in terms of struggle and the workers' toil. Svetlana Alexievich

Life Struggle Women People Thought Group Society Say Emancipation Slogan Only Outside Idea Most Terms Also Women Are Soviet Soviet Union Places Social Workers Should Social Group Toil Union Many

We need a philosophy for humans and nature to live together. Svetlana Alexievich

Nature Together Live Philosophy Humans Need

When I was a child, women spoke to me of how all they had was their memories, how their husbands went to war and never came back, so many tragedies. That chorus of voices filled my consciousness. It was part of life itself. Svetlana Alexievich

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