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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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.…
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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,…
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God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature…
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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 studied Comparative Literature at Cornell. Structuralism was real big then. The idea of reading and writing as being this language game.…
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