I've always loved reading manifestos. Collectively, they represent a triumph of style. — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“I'm willing to be under anything...as long as it isn't somebody's thumb.” — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“But in the end, it has been the inconveniences that have mattered to me most.” — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“There are few things so disarming as one who laughs well at her own expense.” — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
If you could relive one year in your life, which one would it be? [...] The upcoming one. — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“Learning dance steps was the sorry Saturday night pursuit of every boardinghouse girl in America” — Amor Towles America Copy Share Image
“After all, in the midst of armed conflicts, facts are bound to be just as susceptible to injury as ships and men,… — Amor Towles War Copy Share Image
“Who would have imagined,” he said, “when you were sentenced to life in the Metropol all those years ago, that you had… — Amor Towles Life Copy Share Image
We study, as Americans, the extreme aspects of repression under the Stalinist era. We're focused on them. The vast majority of Russian… — Amor Towles Being Copy Share Image
“Ever since [that day], a small uncertainty had buzzed between us.It was a sense of chemistry that had been a little elusive,… — Amor Towles Chemistry Copy Share Image
“As much as we hate to admit the fact, Fate does not take sides. It is fair-minded and generally prefers to maintain… — Amor Towles Destiny Copy Share Image
“reconsideration—and our unwavering determination to withhold our opinion until we have engaged with them in” — Amor Towles Reconsideration Copy Share Image
“I gather you are an early riser, Alexander Ilyich,” he said after a moment of silence. “Men of purpose usually are.” — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“That sense of loss is exactly what we must anticipate, prepare for, and cherish to the last of our days; for it… — Amor Towles Death Copy Share Image
For however inhospitable the wind, from this vantage point Manhattan was simply so improbable, so wonderful, so obviously full of promise -… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“If one had lived one's day well- in the service of industry, liberty, and the Lord- one should be soundly asleep long… — Amor Towles Freedom Copy Share Image
“Right from the first, I could see a calmness in you - that sort of inner tranquility that they write about in… — Amor Towles Books Copy Share Image
Anyone can buy a car or a night on the town. Most of us shell our days like peanuts. One in a… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“it is a fact that a man can be profoundly out of step with his times. A man may have been born… — Amor Towles Culture Copy Share Image
“As we age, we are bound to find comfort from the notion that it takes generations for a way of life to… — Amor Towles Generations Copy Share Image
“Yes, a ghost, thought the Count, as he moved silently down the hall. Like Hamlet’s father roaming the ramparts of Elsinore after… — Amor Towles Ghost Copy Share Image
“When a mother loses a daughter, she grieves over the future that her daughter will never have, but she can take solace… — Amor Towles Children Copy Share Image
“-You've got a . . . Lot of books, he said at last. -it's a sickness. -Are you . . . Seeing… — Amor Towles Books Copy Share Image
“I have had countless reasons to be proud of you; and certainly one of the greatest was the night of the Conservatory… — Amor Towles Applause Copy Share Image
“For pomp is a tenacious force. And a wily one too. How humbly it bows its head as the emperor is dragged… — Amor Towles Emperor Copy Share Image
“At the greatest cost! But do you think the achievements of the Americans—envied the world over—came without a cost? Just ask their… — Amor Towles Success Copy Share Image
“But just as important, a careful accounting of days allows the isolated to note that another year of hardship has been endured;… — Amor Towles Another year Copy Share Image
“But having snuck into the room of this American and arranged for a message to be delivered, it suddenly occurred to the… — Amor Towles Love and laughter Copy Share Image
But for me, dinner at a fine restaurant was the ultimate luxury. It was the very height of civilization. For what was… — Amor Towles Ascendancy Copy Share Image
“Anyone who has ridden the subway twice a day to earn their bread knows how it goes: When you board, you exhibit… — Amor Towles Persona Copy Share Image
“A man can never be entirely sure that he is not a fuddy-duddy. That is axiomatic to the term.” — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
That's the problem with living in New York. You've got no New York to run away to. — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“imagining what might happen if one’s circumstances were different was the only sure route to madness.” — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“The designs of men are notoriously subservient to happenstance, hesitation, and haste; but” — Amor Towles Greatness Copy Share Image
“To get out of that party, we both would have volunteered to walk a rabid dog.” — Amor Towles Animal Copy Share Image
“adversity presents itself in many forms; and that if a man does not master his circumstances then he is bound to be… — Amor Towles Adversity Copy Share Image
“Here they resided, two worldviews separated only by Fifth Avenue, facing off until the end of time or the end of Manhattan,… — Amor Towles End of time Copy Share Image
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