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 FURSTThe printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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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 invented the historical spy novel.
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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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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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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 a genre writer.
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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’m not really a mass market writer.
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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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