Alan Furst

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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These are some quotes by American author Alan Furst Author, who was born on February 20, 1941.

Quotes by Alan Furst

I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain.

Alan Furst

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The brutalization of humans by other humans never fails to get to me in some angry-making way. It shot up in me like an explosion.

Alan Furst

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'The Levanter' features some of the strongest action scenes to be found in Ambler - who can, in some of his fiction, stay in one place for a whole novel.

Alan Furst

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