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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/svetlana-alexievich/real-people-speak-in-my-books-about-the-main-events-of-the-age-such/)

[Svetlana Alexievich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/svetlana-alexievich/)

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## More by Svetlana Alexievich

> [Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/svetlana-alexievich/real-people-speak-in-my-books-about-the-main-events-of-the-age-such/)

[Svetlana Alexievich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/svetlana-alexievich/)

> [In the post-Soviet era, instead of freedom, various stripes of autocratic-totalitarianism have flourished: Russian, Belarusian, Kazakh... We are finding our way out from under…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/svetlana-alexievich/in-the-post-soviet-era-instead-of-freedom-various-stripes-of/)

[Svetlana Alexievich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/svetlana-alexievich/)

> [“How can we preserve our planet on which little girls are supposed to sleep in their beds, and not lie dead on the road…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/svetlana-alexievich/how-can-we-preserve-our-planet-on-which-little-girls-are-supposed-to/)

[Svetlana Alexievich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/svetlana-alexievich/)

> [I write my books at moments of shock. I meet people in extremis and their stories are highly emotionally charged.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/svetlana-alexievich/i-write-my-books-at-moments-of-shock-i-meet-people-in-extremis-and/)

[Svetlana Alexievich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/svetlana-alexievich/)

> [I don't love great ideas. I love the little human being.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/svetlana-alexievich/i-don-t-love-great-ideas-i-love-the-little-human-being/)

[Svetlana Alexievich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/svetlana-alexievich/)

> [Women tell things in more interesting ways. They live with more feeling. They observe themselves and their lives. Men are more impressed with action.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/svetlana-alexievich/women-tell-things-in-more-interesting-ways-they-live-with-more/)

[Svetlana Alexievich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/svetlana-alexievich/)

> [Many times, I have been shocked and frightened by human beings. I have experienced delight and revulsion. I have sometimes wanted to forget what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/svetlana-alexievich/many-times-i-have-been-shocked-and-frightened-by-human-beings-i-have/)

[Svetlana Alexievich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/svetlana-alexievich/)

> [No book about Soviet sacrifice was as strong as the women's stories I heard as a child.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/svetlana-alexievich/no-book-about-soviet-sacrifice-was-as-strong-as-the-women-s-stories-i/)

[Svetlana Alexievich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/svetlana-alexievich/)

> [I see the world as voices, as colors, as it were. From book to book, I change, the subjects change, but the narrative thread…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/svetlana-alexievich/i-see-the-world-as-voices-as-colors-as-it-were-from-book-to-book-i/)

[Svetlana Alexievich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/svetlana-alexievich/)

> [We thought we'd leave communism behind, and everything would turn out fine. But it turns out you can't leave this and become free, because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/svetlana-alexievich/we-thought-we-d-leave-communism-behind-and-everything-would-turn-out/)

[Svetlana Alexievich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/svetlana-alexievich/)

> [For money, I can buy one thing: I buy freedom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/svetlana-alexievich/for-money-i-can-buy-one-thing-i-buy-freedom/)

[Svetlana Alexievich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/svetlana-alexievich/)

> [A man without a memory is only capable of doing evil, nothing else but evil.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/svetlana-alexievich/a-man-without-a-memory-is-only-capable-of-doing-evil-nothing-else-but/)

[Svetlana Alexievich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/svetlana-alexievich/)

> [When people talk, it matters how they place words next to each other.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/svetlana-alexievich/when-people-talk-it-matters-how-they-place-words-next-to-each-other/)

[Svetlana Alexievich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/svetlana-alexievich/)

> [“The Germans rolled back, and a wounded lieutenant, the artillerist Kostia Khudov, was left in no-man’s-land. The orderlies who tried to bring him back…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/svetlana-alexievich/the-germans-rolled-back-and-a-wounded-lieutenant-the-artillerist/)

[Svetlana Alexievich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/svetlana-alexievich/)

> [What I'm concerned with is what I would call the missing history - the invisible imprint of our stay on Earth and in time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/svetlana-alexievich/what-i-m-concerned-with-is-what-i-would-call-the-missing-history-the/)

[Svetlana Alexievich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/svetlana-alexievich/)

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