One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
ALAN FURSTWherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
More Alan Furst Quotes
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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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I invented the historical spy novel.
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Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
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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 have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don’t want to be the person to stick that in your brain.
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I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
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Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers.
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the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said
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And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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I read very little contemporary anything.
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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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