Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
ALAN FURSTOn the Greek frontier, one wasn’t sure what came next. So, don’t trust the telephone. Or the newspapers. Or the radio. Or tomorrow.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
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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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I’m not really a mass market writer.
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You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
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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 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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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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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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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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One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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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 expect them to have read books – there are a lot of people like that! That’s my audience.
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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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