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Women take great care of themselves in France. It's a culture dedicated to making women beautiful and to manners.

~Alan Furst

Topics: Beautiful Care Culture Dedicated France Great Making Manners Take Themselves Women

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French women will always look up at a man, even if he is four inches shorter than she is.

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Topics: Always Even Four French He Inches Look Man She Than Up Will Women

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We're the roughest people in the way we play and live, and that is because Americans come from people who all got up one morning and went 5,000 miles, and that was a time in the 19th century when it wasn't so easy to do.

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Topics: American Because Century Come Easy Got Live Miles Morning One Morning People Play Time Up Way Who 19Th Century

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I read very little contemporary anything... I don't think I read what other people read, but then why would I, considering what I do?

~Alan Furst

Topics: Anything Considering Contemporary Little Other People Read Then Think Very Why Would

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I love the gray areas, but I like the gray areas as considered by bright, educated, courageous people.

~Alan Furst

Topics: Area Bright Considered Courageous Educated Gray Like Love People I Love

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I figured I would always be a candidate for man of the year in the virtue-is-its-own-reward category. What that did was force me to concentrate on the work.

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Topics: Always Candidate Category Concentrate Did Figured Force Man Me Work Would Year

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I had the experience of a monk copying documents, applying myself assiduously to my work. And I thought whatever happened, happened - this is just what I do in my life.

~Alan Furst

Topics: Applying Copying Documents Experience Had Happened Just Life Monk My Life Myself Thought Whatever Work

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I love the combination of the words 'spies' and 'Balkans.' It's like meat and potatoes.

~Alan Furst

Topics: Balkans Combination Like Love Meat Potatoes Spies Words I Love

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The only way you can handle big kinds of questions is to simply state briefly what the truth was. What am I going to tell you about the Holocaust? Would you like three pages about it? I don't think you would... I don't think anything different than you think - it was horrible.

~Alan Furst

Topics: About Am Anything Big Different Going Handle Holocaust Horrible Kinds Like Only Pages Questions Simply State Tell Than Think Three Truth Way Would You

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Graham Greene's work must be included in any survey of top-rank spy novels, and 'Our Man in Havana' may be his best.

~Alan Furst

Topics: Any Best Graham Havana His Included Man May Must Novels Our Spy Survey Work

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 20th, 1941

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