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All empires become arrogant. It is their nature.
Edward Rutherfurd / Writer
Arrogant
Empires
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All of my career has been an attempt to educate myself and get paid for it.
Edward Rutherfurd / Writer
Careers
Educate
Has Beens
Attempt
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as I said,I believe in fate.Things happen as they are meant to be.We just have to recognize our destiny.
Edward Rutherfurd / Writer
Believe
Destiny
Fate
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Paris. City of love. City of dreams. City of splendor. City of saints and scholars. City of gaiety. Sink of iniquity.
Edward Rutherfurd / Writer
Dream
Cities
Gaiety
Iniquity
Paris
Splendor
Saints
Scholars
Sink
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You can do what you like, sir, but I'll tell you this. New York is the true capital of America. Every New Yorker knows it, and by God, we always shall.
Edward Rutherfurd / Writer
New York
America
Can Do
Knows
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She was quiet for a moment or two. Then she said: Cruel words are a terrible thing, Quash. Sometimes you regret them. But what's been said cannot be unsaid.
Edward Rutherfurd / Writer
Life
Regret
Two
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For centuries my father's family lived on Britain's biggest tidal river, the Severn, on which there was a huge trade with the interior, and through the Port of Bristol with America.
Edward Rutherfurd / Writer
Bristol
Port
Trade
Centuries
Interior
River
Tidal
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For me, playing music while I write is important. Several of the romantic scenes in 'Paris' were written with Debussy's 'String Quartet,' his 'L'Apres-midi d'une Faune,' or Canteloube's 'Songs of the Auvergne' playing in the background.
Edward Rutherfurd / Writer
Debussy
Background
Quartet
String
String Quartet
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For novelists, the imagination is everything. The trick is to guide one's imagination using research. I love using old maps. When I wrote my novels on London and New York, I found wonderful historical atlases. Paris has the most lavish maps of all.
Edward Rutherfurd / Writer
Maps
Novelists
Guide
Trick
Lavish
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Writing historical novels can be dangerous. We need to be as accurate and as fair about the historical record as we can be, at the same time as creating our fictional characters and, hopefully, telling a good story. The challenge is weaving the fiction into the history.
Edward Rutherfurd / Writer
Accurate
Good Story
Weaving
Time History Good
Fictional
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I first considered writing 'New York' in 1991. I'd been in the city for a decade, was married to an American wife, and sending my children to New York schools. I was even on the board of a coop building. But I wasn't sure how to organize such complex material, and for many years I put the project aside.
Edward Rutherfurd / Writer
Organize
Aside
Board
Complex
Decade
Sending
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I myself was born beside a river - the Avon in Sarum. So when I first encountered New York's great harbor and the Hudson River as a teenager, and came to understand their historic canal and railroad links to the vast spaces of the Midwest, I felt both the thrill of a new adventure and a deep sense of homecoming.
Edward Rutherfurd / Writer
Adventure
Avon
Historic
Homecoming
Links
Thrill
Beside
Canal
Vast
Encountered
Harbor
Hudson
Railroad
River
Spaces
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I descend from both Philadelphia Quakers and Carolina colonists whose families were separated by the Revolutionary War. That helped give me insight into the agony of Patriots who, until the British government denied their claims, had always, like Ben Franklin himself, thought of themselves as free-born Englishmen.
Edward Rutherfurd / Writer
Agony
British Government
Carolina
Claims
Colonists
Denied
Englishmen
Franklin
Give Me
Insight
Philadelphia
Revolutionary
Revolutionary War
Descend
War Government Me
Ben
Patriots
Quakers
Separated
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Don't you know that there's another bubble as well An expectations bubble. Bigger houses private planes yachts ...... stupid salaries and bonuses. People come to desire these things and expect them. But the expectations bubble will burst as well as all bubbles do. Come to my gallery and I will sell you beautiful things at a more reasonable price. But the point is that they will have value. Things of real beauty things of the spirit.
Edward Rutherfurd / Writer
Beautiful
Real
Stupid
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