the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said
ALAN FURSTI’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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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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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
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You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
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Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
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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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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 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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I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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