As both a student of history and a man devoted to living in the present, I admit that I do not spend… — Amor Towles History Copy Share Image
Dad has worked as a banker at the same firm in Boston, living in the same suburban neighborhood for over 50 years.… — Amor Towles Dad Copy Share Image
“The romantic interplay that we were having wasn't the real game--it was a modified version of the game. It was a version… — Amor Towles Fitness Copy Share Image
Of course, you wouldn't want to re-create the era of aristocracy; it was a totally unfair era. The finer aspects of it… — Amor Towles Aristocracy Copy Share Image
“As a quick aside, let me observe that in moments of high emotion…if the next thing you're going to say makes you… — Amor Towles Emotion Copy Share Image
“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
I suppose we don't rely on comparison enough to tell us whom it is that we are talking to. We give people… — Amor Towles Comparison Copy Share Image
“But events can unfold in such a manner that overnight the man out of step finds himself in the right place at… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“—You see this apple? Sweet. Crisp. Ruby red. It wasn’t always like that, you know. The first apples in America were mottled… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“But I've come to realie that however blue my circumstance,s if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a… — Amor Towles Books Copy Share Image
When I visited Moscow for the first time in 1998, I wandered into the historic Metropol Hotel as a curious tourist simply… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it is a matter of celestial balance," he reflected. "A sort of cosmic equilibrium. Perhaps the aggregate experience of Time is… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
Say I lived until 80 and read a book a month seriously, that means I was looking at 480 books left in… — Amor Towles Attention Copy Share Image
“they seemed to depict an America in which corruption and cruelty lounged on the couch; in which justice was a beggar and… — Amor Towles Economics Copy Share Image
I prefer to put myself in an environment that's further afield and look through the eyes of someone who differs from me… — Amor Towles Age Copy Share Image
I had read Harold Bloom's 'Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?' Late in his life, having read everything, Bloom asked which books had… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“From the very first words of her speech, the audience can tell that here was no idler. For her voice was that… — Amor Towles Communication Copy Share Image
“It seemed to give shape to the open air, or rather to reveal the hidden architecture that was there all along -… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“I knew too well the nature of life's distractions and enticements-how the piecemeal progress of our hopes and ambitions commands our undivided… — Amor Towles Ambition Copy Share Image
“For it is the role of the parent to express his concerns and then take three steps back. Not one, mind you,… — Amor Towles Child Copy Share Image
“And the objects in our homes? The oriental coffee tables and well-worn desks that have been handed down from generation to generation?… — Amor Towles Beauty Copy Share Image
“With over a millennia of heritage behind them, each with their own glimpse of empire and some pinnacle of human expression (a… — Amor Towles Conformity Copy Share Image
“Mishka would pine for Katerina the rest of his life! Never again would he walk Nevsky Prospekt, however they chose to rename… — Amor Towles Life Copy Share Image
“How little imagination and courage we show in our hatreds. If we earn fifty cents an hour, we admire the rich and… — Amor Towles Courage Copy Share Image
“When all was said and done, the endeavors that most modern men saw as urgent (such as appointments with bankers and the… — Amor Towles Fitness Copy Share Image
“In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
