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Famous Alan Furst Quotes
“Home at that moment was a starless night, a steady wind, not a human to be seen.”
Source: Mission to Paris
Source: Dark Star
Source: Night Soldiers
Source: Night Soldiers
“This year, of course, being 1936, there would be no figs.”
Source: Night Soldiers
“We are afflicted with a darkness of the soul and fall in love with our pain.”
Source: Night Soldiers
“Live today, for tomorrow we die.”
Source: Night Soldiers: A Novel
“One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.”
Source: The World at Night: A Novel
“Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower - translated from a French saying”
Source: Night Soldiers: A Novel
Source: Dark Star: A Novel
Source: Spies of the Balkans: A Novel
“You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.”
“I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.”
“I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated.”
“Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.”