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Louis Begley has 8 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.
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French was my first language.
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I learned Spanish at home and, since half my family doesn't speak English, it's my first language.
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My first language is Gaelic.
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Touch is the first language we speak.
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Silence is God's first language.
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We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
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My father is Cuban. Spanish was my first language, but I don't speak it that much anymore because I had dyslexia, and…
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I grew up in France, my first language was French, and I tend to gravitate towards French cooking.
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Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.
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