Amor Towles Quotes

• If we only fell in love with people who were perfect for us...then there wouldn't be so much fuss about love in the first place.

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  Love, People, Perfect

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• In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for a hundred visions and revisions—we draw a card, and we must decide right then and there whether to keep that card and discard the next, or discard the first card and keep the second. And before we know it, the deck has been played out and the decisions we have just made will shape our lives for decades to come.

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  Decision, Vision, Twenties

  Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.323, Penguin

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• It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book.

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  Book, Oddities, Two

  Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.79, Penguin

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• Cualquiera puede comprarse un coche o una noche en la ciudad. La mayoría desgranamos nuestros días como si fueran cacahuetes. Uno entre mil puede mirar el mundo con asombro. No me refiero a mirar embobado el edificio Chrysler. Hablo del ala de una libélula. El cuento del limpiabotas. Caminando a través de una hora inmaculada con un corazón inmaculado

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  Mean, Heart, Night

  Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.202, Penguin

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• For better or worse, there are few things so disarming as one who laughs well at her own expense.

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  Laughing, Expenses, Disarming

  Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.208, Penguin

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• As a quick aside, let me observe that in moments of high emotion....if the next thing you're going to say makes you feel better, then it's probably the wrong thing to say. This is one of the finer maxims that I've discovered in life. And you can have it, since it's been of no use to me.

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  Feel Better, Use, Next

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• I know that right choices by definition are the means by which life crystallizes loss.

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  Mean, Loss, Choices

  Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.324, Penguin

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• If you could relive one year in your life, which one would it be? [...] The upcoming one.

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  Years, Ifs

  Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.50, Penguin

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• Pero para mí, cenar en un buen restaurante era el lujo supremo. Era el culmen de la civilización. Porque, ¿qué era la civilización sino el ascenso del intelecto desde el marasmo de la necesidad (refugio, sustento y supervivencia) al éter de lo finamente superfluo (poesía, bolsos y alta cocina)? La experiencia estaba tan alejada de la vida cotidiana que, cuando todo estaba podrido hasta la médula, una buena cena podía reanimar el espíritu. Cuando me quedaran veinte dólares, los invertiría aquí mismo, en una hora elegante e inembargable.

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  Civilization, Names, Ifs And

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• Old times, as my father used to say: If you're not careful, they'll gut you like a fish.

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  Father, Used, Old Time

  Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.75, Penguin

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• If Broadway was a river running from the top of Manhattan down to the Battery, undulating with traffic and commerce and lights, then the east-west streets were eddies where, leaf-like, one could turn slow circles from the beginning to the ever shall be, world without end.

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  Running, Light, Circles

  Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.84, Penguin

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• I've come to realize that however blue my circumstances, if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train sort of compulsion to read on, then everything is probably going to be just fine.

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  Blue, Missing, Finishing

  Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility”, p.98, Hachette UK

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• Slurring is the cursive of speech.

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  Speech, Cursive

  Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.92, Penguin

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• Be careful when choosing what you're proud of--because the world has every intention of using it against you

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  World, Proud, Intention

  Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.37, Penguin

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• I suppose we don't rely on comparison enough to tell us whom it is that we are talking to. We give people the liberty of fashioning themselves in the moment-a span of time that is so much more manageable, stageable, controllable than is a lifetime.

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  Talking, People, Giving

  Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.192, Penguin

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• For however inhospitable the wind, from this vantage point Manhattan was simply so improbable, so wonderful, so obviously full of promise - that you wanted to approach it for the rest of your life without ever quite arriving.

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  Wind, Promise, Arriving

  Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.229, Penguin

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• Really. Is there anything nice to be said about other people's vacations?

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  Nice, Vacation, People

  Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.127, Penguin

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• If only someone had told me about the confidence-boosting nature of guns, I’d have been shooting them all my life.

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  Gun, Shooting, Confidence Boosting

  Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility”, p.135, Hachette UK

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• Emily Post says that talking about oneself isn't very polite.' 'I'm sure Miss Post is perfectly correct, but that doesn't seem to stop the rest of us.

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  Talking, Missing, Polite

  Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility”, p.34, Hachette UK

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• That's how quickly New York City comes about - like a weather wane - or the head of a cobra. Time tells which.

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  New York, Weather, Cities

  Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.161, Penguin

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• Learning dance steps was the sorry Saturday night pursuit of every boardinghouse girl in America.

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  Girl, Sorry, Night

  Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.30, Penguin

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• That's the problem with living in New York. You've got no New York to run away to.

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  Running, New York, Problem

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