Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory. -Aleksander Solzhenitsyn

 

Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.


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For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. -Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
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I was in a state of witless shock, as though flames had suddenly enwrapped and paralyzed me so that for a moment I had no mind, no memory.

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I'd rather have the United States be the world's policeman than the Soviet Union be the world's jailer.

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148
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press. -Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

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