213 Quotes by Olga Tokarczuk
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We can feel in Poland a kind of phantom pain for lost multi-ethnic territories.
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I'm too neurotic to be a therapist.
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Reading English novels I always adore the ability to write without fear about inner psychological things that are so delicate.
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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.'
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In a certain sense we can be proud to have introduced this hairstyle to Europe. 'Plica polonica' should be added to the list of our inventions, alongside crude oil, pierogi and vodka.
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State television, from which a significant number of Poles get their news, consistently smears, in aggressive and defamatory language, the political opposition and anyone who thinks differently from the ruling party.
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