6 Louis Begley Quotes for You to Enjoy

Louis Begley

American Novelist

Born: Oct 6, 1933

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If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction. Louis Begley

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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. Louis Begley

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 Begley

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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. Louis Begley

Law Group Think Jews Rule Rule Of Law Distinct Gifted Paramount Because Vulnerable Itself Wherever Which Successful Lives Societies

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 Begley

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