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NOVELISTS > novelist > Alexander Solzhenitsyn
No one can...
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No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. But may it be that repeated lessons will finally teach us not to stop the writer's pen during his lifetime?
Source: Open letter, 16 May 1967, to the Fourth Soviet Writers' Congress (published in Problems of Communism, July-Aug. 1968;
-- Alexander Solzhenitsyn, (Dec 11 1918-2008), Russian novelist; He is well known for his books describing forced labor camps, e.g., One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, 1962.