First time Quote by Amor Towles
“When I visited Moscow for the first time in 1998, I wandered into the historic Metropol Hotel as a curious tourist simply to ogle the giant painted glass ceiling that hangs over the grand restaurant off the lobby. It was the memory of that short visit that prompted me, some years later, to set 'A Gentleman in Moscow' in the hotel.”
![“Around the corner [ of the Carnegie Delicatessen] is the Russian Tea Room, which is now out of business. Which is awful. I remember going in there and seeing the ballerinas trotting in there like they were prize horses, with their hair, their sunglasses. Really amazing. They were all White…” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d1b/paul-laffoley-7077_around-the-corner_around-the-corner-of-the-carnegie-delica_1949100.jpg)
