Louis Begley quotes
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“I may well do some more polemical writing, if a subject that fires me up comes along. Apart from that possibility, I would like to continue to tell stories so long as I have stories to tell.”
-- Louis BegleySource : Interview with David B. Green, www.haaretz.com. January 3, 2010.
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“I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen.”
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“If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction.”
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“As you know, I am a novelist, and I really want to write novels. But I knew enough about the Dreyfus case to understand immediately why what happened to Dreyfus was not merely a cause celebre from the end of the 19th century, but an event that could be shown to teach us lessons of the greatest importance for our own time.”
-- Louis BegleySource : Interview with David B. Green, www.haaretz.com. January 3, 2010.
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“I think I am less self-assured when I write English than I would be if I were writing in my first language. I have to test each sentence over and over to be sure that it's right, that I haven't introduced some element that isn't English.”
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“I think that Jews - because they are a distinct, gifted and successful group that differentiates itself from societies in which it lives - are vulnerable wherever the rule of law is not paramount.”
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“In legal practice, in the representation of clients, I have always felt deeply engaged, serene, and not all inclined to stand aside. I have always done whatever needed to be done, and have usually gotten my way.”
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“My views about the safety of Jews in the world have not been changed by the work on the Dreyfus affair or, for that matter, by the work I did on Franz Kafka for the book on him I published a year before the Dreyfus book appeared.”
-- Louis BegleySource : "Questions & Answers: A Conversation With Louis Begley". Interview with David B. Green, www.haaretz.com. January 3, 2010.
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“The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.”
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Source : Abolqasem Ferdowsi (2016). “Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings”, p.87, Penguin
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Source : A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co
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Source : A. C. Grayling (2004). “Life, Sex and Ideas: The Good Life Without God”, p.130, Oxford University Press, USA
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