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I understand that it's good tactics to categorize me as a close-minded, unobjective extremist, but nobody that respects me has those views.

~Alan Dershowitz

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For most people, the question why be good - as distinguished from merely law abiding - is a simple one. Because God commands it, because the Bible requires it, because good people go to Heaven and bad people go to Hell.

~Alan Dershowitz

Topics: Abide Bad Bad People Because Bible Commands Distinguished Go Go To Hell God Good Good People Heaven Hell Law Merely Most People Question Requires Simple Why

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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

Topics: About Bad Bad People Being Dog Good Good People Lawn People Playing Spend Think Time Want

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What you get in the Cold War is 'the wilderness of mirrors' where you have to figure out what's good and what's evil. That's good for John le Carre, but not me.

~Alan Furst

Topics: Cold Cold War Evil Figure Get Good John Me Mirrors Out War Where Wilderness You

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When I read period material - and it ain't on Google - I am always alert for that one incredible detail. I'll read a whole book and get three words out of it, but they'll be three really good words.

~Alan Furst

Topics: Alert Always Am Book Detail Get Good Google Incredible Material Out Period Read Really Three Whole Words I Am

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A book must have moral purpose to be any good. Why, I don't know.

~Alan Furst

Topics: Any Book Good Know Moral Must Purpose Why

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I am there to entertain. I call my work high escape fiction; it's high, it's good - but it's escape, and I have no delusions about that. I have no ambition to be a serious writer, whatever that means.

~Alan Furst

Topics: About Am Ambition Call Delusions Entertain Escape Fiction Good High Means Serious Whatever Work Writer I Am

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Romantic love, or sex, is the only good thing in a life that is being lived in a dark way.

~Alan Furst

Topics: Being Dark Good Good Thing Life Lived Love Only Romantic Romantic Love Sex Thing Way

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Yes, I'm a reasonably good self-taught historian of the 1930s and '40s. I've never wanted to write about another time or place. I wouldn't know what to say about contemporary society.

~Alan Furst

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For John le Carre, it was always who's betraying who: the hall-of-mirrors kind of thing. When you go back to the '30s, it's a case of good vs. evil, and no kidding. When I have a hero who believes France and Britain are on the right side, a reader is not going to question that.

~Alan Furst

Topics: Always Back Believes Betraying Britain Case Evil France Go Going Good Hero John Kidding Kind Question Reader Right Right Side Side Thing Who You

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