Quotes by Olga Tokarczuk - Page 2

Everything that was interesting was outside of Poland. Great music, art, film, hippies, Mick Jagger. It was impossible even to dream of escape. I was convinced as a teen-ager that I would have to spend the rest of my life in this trap.
Olga Tokarczuk /
Convinced
Great Music
Impossible
Jagger
Poland
Life Art Music
Escape
Hippies
Mick Jagger
Trap
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Poland was once a powerful imperial country that disappeared from maps of Europe for more than 100 years. It was partitioned and occupied by the Nazis and the Russians... We pop up and disappear and we do not trust what we are told to believe.
Olga Tokarczuk /
Disappear
Europe
Maps
Poland
Russians
Imperial
Occupied
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I write books to open people's minds, to present new perspectives, to make people realize that what they think is obvious is not so obvious, that you can look at a trivial situation from a different angle and suddenly reveal other meanings and levels.
Olga Tokarczuk /
Angle
Levels
Obvious
Situation
Look People New
Books
Open
Look Situation People
Meanings
Minds
Present
Perspectives
Realize
Reveal
Suddenly
Trivial
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Sometimes I wonder how my life would have worked out if my books had been translated into English sooner, because English is the language that's spoken worldwide, and when a book appears in English it is made universal, it becomes a global publication.
Olga Tokarczuk /
Publication
Wonder
Life My Life Sometimes
Appears
English
Sooner
Spoken
Translated
Worldwide
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The first photograph I ever experienced consciously is a picture of my mother from before she gave birth to me. Unfortunately, it's a black-and-white photograph, which means that many of the details have been lost, turning into nothing but gray shapes.
Olga Tokarczuk /
Birth
Details
Gray
Photograph
Shapes
Mother Me Lost
Picture
Turning
Experienced
Unfortunately
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There is no official censorship in literature, but I feel a certain fear when I see that a kind of self-censorship is developing in Poland. Authors are somehow afraid of expressing what they really think or feel because they fear political consequences.
Olga Tokarczuk /
Censorship
Certain
Developing
Literature
Poland
Feel
Afraid
Authors
Expressing
Official
See
Somehow
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In a healthy, normal society, people can disagree with one another, even have diametrically opposing views, and this does not at all mean that they must hate one another. The Polish authorities, however, have made the division of Poles their primary task.
Olga Tokarczuk /
Disagree
Division
Opposing
Views
Authorities
Diametrically
Poles
Task
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I believe in a kind of literature which makes clear that, at a deeper level, below the surface, we are tied together through invisible but existing threads. A kind of literature which talks about a lively, ever-changing world of unity, of which we are a small, but not insignificant part.
Olga Tokarczuk /
Clear
Deeper
Insignificant
Invisible
Literature
Tied
Unity
Below
Believe I Believe Together
Deeper Level
Ever-Changing
Existing
Together World Believe
Small
Talks
Threads
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I decided to write a crime novel. That genre was at the height of its popularity in Poland, so I thought it might earn me a bit of cash to go on with my work on 'The Books of Jacob.' I shut myself away for a few months and devoted myself entirely to 'Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead.'
Olga Tokarczuk /
Bones
Cash
Crime
Decided
Devoted
Genre
Height
Jacob
Months
Novel
Popularity
Work Myself Me
Work Myself Your
Drive
Bit
Dead
Earn
Entirely
Plow
Shut
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I first read Sigmund Freud's 'Beyond the Pleasure Principle' as a young girl, and it helped me to understand that there are thousands of possible ways to interpret our experience, that everything has a meaning, and that interpretation is the key to reality. This was the first step to becoming a writer.
Olga Tokarczuk /
Becoming
Pleasure
Experience Reality Me
Beyond
First Step
Freud
Helped
Interpret
Meaning
Principle
Step
Thousands
Young Girl
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But the fact is we did have colonies in the east of Poland, we did have a slave economy there. But this is not common knowledge - or part of our national myth. It goes against the current romanticised view of the government, and much of the country, that Poles have always been victims, never oppressors.
Olga Tokarczuk /
Common
Common Knowledge
East
Myth
Oppressors
Poland
Slave
Colonies
Current
National
View
Victims
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I realized that we don't travel in such a linear way anymore but rather jump from one point to another and back again. So I got this idea for a 'constellation' novel recounting experiences that were separate from each other but could still be connected on different psychological, physical and political levels.
Olga Tokarczuk /
Levels
Linear
Psychological
Jump
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Two centuries ago, when our nation lost its sovereignty and was partitioned among Russia, Prussia and Austria, Polish Romantics like the poet and nationalist Adam Mickiewicz declared that independence would come only with great sacrifice. Ever since, this myth of the martyr, or messianic victim, has emerged during times of national crisis.
Olga Tokarczuk /
Independence
Adam
Austria
Crisis
Lost
Martyr
Myth
Polish
Prussia
Russia
Sovereignty
Victim
Since
Among
Centuries
Nation
Emerged
Romantics
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