The Foreign Correspondent Quotes

“Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.”
― Alan Furst, The Foreign Correspondent

“Ahh, fuck this.” “Yes,” Weisz said. “And that will do for an epitaph.”
― Alan Furst, The Foreign Correspondent

“The French would be outraged, but then, the French were habitually outraged.”
― Alan Furst, The Foreign Correspondent

“read it.”
― Alan Furst, The Foreign Correspondent

“news—news which was withheld or slanted in Italy, where journalism had been defined, by law, as a supportive adjunct to national policy.”
― Alan Furst, The Foreign Correspondent

“spies and journalists were fated to go through life together, and it was sometimes hard to tell one from the other. Their jobs weren’t all that different: they talked to politicians, developed sources in government bureaux, and dug around for secrets.”
― Alan Furst, The Foreign Correspondent

“A fat man with a Nazi party pin in his lapel played Cole Porter on a white piano.”
― Alan Furst, The Foreign Correspondent