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1. "Good people don't spend their time being good. 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 Furst
2. "You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic." ~ Alan Furst
3. "I don't inflict horrors on readers." ~ Alan Furst
4. "I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer." ~ Alan Furst
5. "I invented the historical spy novel." ~ Alan Furst
6. "I read very little contemporary anything." ~ Alan Furst
7. "I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated." ~ Alan Furst
8. "I'm basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer." ~ Alan Furst
9. "I'm not really a mass market writer." ~ Alan Furst
10. "If you can live in Paris, maybe you should." ~ Alan Furst
11. "If you're a writer, you're always working." ~ Alan Furst
12. "My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books." ~ Alan Furst
13. "Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them." ~ Alan Furst
14. "The best Paris I know now is in my head." ~ Alan Furst
15. "You write a lot of books; you hope you get better." ~ Alan Furst
16. "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." ~ Alan Furst
17. "I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books - there are a lot of people like that! That's my audience." ~ Alan Furst
18. "Home at that moment was a starless night, a steady wind, not a human to be seen." ~ Alan Furst
19. "And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini's armies in Albania, 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." ~ Alan Furst
20. "Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower - translated from a French saying" ~ Alan Furst
21. "One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be." ~ Alan Furst
22. "There's a French saying, ‘Où le Dieu a vous semé, il faut savoir fleurir.' Let's see, ‘Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower'..." ~ Alan Furst
23. "This land, like so much of the French countryside, was a painting, but Mercier felt his heart touched with melancholy and realized, not for the first time, that beautiful places were hard on lonely people." ~ Alan Furst
24. "Live today, for tomorrow we die." ~ Alan Furst
25. "Well, he thought, one did what one had to do, so life went. No, one did what one had to do in order to do what one wanted to do - so life really went." ~ Alan Furst
26. "This year, of course, being 1936, there would be no figs." ~ Alan Furst
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28. "For Mercier, it was the ceremony of the mass that eased his soul: the sweetish smoke trailing from the censer, the ringing of the bell, the Latin incantations of the priest. In Warsaw, he attended early mass, at a small church near the apartment, once or twice a month, confessing to his vocational sins – duplicity, for example – in the oblique forms provided by Catholic protocol. He'd grown up an untroubled believer, but the war had put an end to that. What God could permit such misery and slaughter? But, in time, he had found consolation in a God beyond understanding and prayed for those he'd lost, for those he loved, and for an end to evil in the world." ? Alan Furst, The Spies of Warsaw" ~ Alan Furst

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