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The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being.

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I've been searching for a genre that would be most adequate to my vision of the world to convey how my ear hears and my eyes see life. I tried this and that, and finally, I chose a genre where human voices speak for themselves. But I don't just record a dry history of events and facts; I'm writing a history of human feelings.

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Putin is not a politician. Putin is a KGB agent. And whatever he does is provocations, which KGB is usually involved in.

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I always aim to understand how much humanity is contained in each human being and how I can protect this humanity in a person.

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

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A totalitarian power is mainly busy in keeping itself alive.

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All our lives, we fight for certain ideals, and they get diluted, and then we have to fight for them again.

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I couldn't get published for three years. Then the times changed: glasnost, perestroika. So, for three years, I wasn't allowed to publish 'The Unwomanly Face of War,' but then it changed.

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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.

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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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Biography

Nationality: Unknown

Type: Journalist

Born: May 31st, 1948

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