And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
ALAN FURSTOne is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It’s where it all began and ended.
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I don’t just want my books to be about the ’30s and ’40s. I want them to read as if they had been written then. I think of them as ’40s novels, written in the conservative narrative past.
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Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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I read very little contemporary anything.
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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
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Good people want to spend their time mowing the lawn and playing with the dog. But bad people spend all their time being bad. It is all they think about.
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My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else’s books.
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Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
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I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language.
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On the Greek frontier, one wasn’t sure what came next. So, don’t trust the telephone. Or the newspapers. Or the radio. Or tomorrow.
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