Alan Furst Quotes
Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.
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I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
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At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.
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People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
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It's hard to say how certain stories just punch us in the heart and the brain at the same time at the end. I suppose that's what we're all looking for. But each story has its own valence, its own way of saying goodbye to you.
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But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent.
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He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within.
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I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.
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The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.
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I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris.
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Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.
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I think Paris smells not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She's a city for the all senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers, for fantasies, for long walks and wine and lovers and, yes, for mysteries.
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Logically, harmony must come from the heart... Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.
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Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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Jews can build in New York, Moscow and Paris, but in our own land, we can't build? That's nuts.
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Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
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There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.
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If there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me.
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Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the ardour of their hearts has been able to create a higher ideal of man and of virtue than the ideal given by Christ of old.
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It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!
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Catholicism is a religion of idols.
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Titles are an important part of a story and I take considerable care in choosing one. In fact, I cannot start a story until I have chosen a title.
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Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.
