"You write a lot of books; you hope you get better."

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Alan Furst

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“But then Iraq happened after September 2001 and America claimed that Al Qaeda was there, and we all know that was a lie and we now know that our own Prime Minister deceived the country terribly.”
“The truth is that the sole reason we donâ€™t see the world all around us as magic is that we are jaded, too cool for the school of wonder.”
“The variety of all things forms a pleasure.”
“I began just writing poems and then fell in love with the form.”
“For, once man is declared 'the measure of all things,' there is no longer a true, or a good, or a just, but only opinions of equal validity whose clash can be settled only by political or military force; and each force in turn enthrones in its hour of triumph a true, a good, and a just which will endure just as long as itself.”
“Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any ... people of any religious faith in this country.”
“Out of 1.6 billion Muslims, perhaps only 300 million actually understand the language of the Koran.”
“Shyness is I-ness. Shyness is really wondering if you have other people's approval.”

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