"Forty-Five Things I Learned in the Gulag" https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/06/12/forty-five-things-i-learned-in-the-gulag/
@Gargron accurate
@Gargron wrong account oops
@Gargron This one’s interesting too:
“I understood that a writer has to be a foreigner in the questions he is dealing with, and if he knows his material well, he will write in such a way that nobody will understand him.”
"I discovered that the world should be divided not into good and bad people but into cowards and non-cowards. Ninety-five percent of cowards are capable of the vilest things, lethal things, at the mildest threat."