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.
ALAN FURSTPoliticians were like talking dogs in a circus.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I’m gonna do 320, that’s 160 days.
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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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Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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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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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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Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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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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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
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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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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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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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I expect them to have read books – there are a lot of people like that! That’s my audience.
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