You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
ALAN FURSTPoliticians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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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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One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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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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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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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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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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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
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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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And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
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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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I’m a genre writer.
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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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