Alan Furst Quotes
I think I honestly invented my own genre, the historical spy novel.
Alan Furst
Quotes to Explore
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
E. M. Forster
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Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.
Francesco Guicciardini
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If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.
Randall Jarrell
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There are times, especially on 'The Five,' where I've lost control for a moment. I always feel bad about it, but those always seem to be the times that people realize, if I'm mad about something, it must really matter.
Dana Perino
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At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
Carl Spitteler
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CEOs and employers at for-profit corporations should not be able to prevent women from access to health care simply because of their own personal religious objections.
Dan Maffei
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Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.
Thomas Aquinas
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The pulse of the People is still so high as to call for more bleeding, before quinine can be administered with any hope of benefit.
James L. Petigru
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I've been doing it since I was prepubescent when I loved to scratch records and play good music. As it happens, you know I sort of fell into the mix. I really feel like I played a role in bringing dance music to America years ago.
Alain Macklovitch
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I remember watching 'Quantum Leap' when I was a kid with my family, so I think that's fun and nostalgic.
Matt Lanter
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I have three sisters. I went to an all-girls academy.
Katie Holmes
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I think I honestly invented my own genre, the historical spy novel.
Alan Furst