And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
ALAN FURSTLive today, for tomorrow we die.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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I’m a genre writer.
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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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I read very little contemporary anything.
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My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else’s books.
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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 invented the historical spy novel.
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I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
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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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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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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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