Anyone can buy a car or a night on the town. Most of us shell our days like … - Amor Towles

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What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.

Amor Towles

Anyone can buy a car or a night on the town. Most of us shell our days like peanuts. One in a thousand can look at the world with amazement. I don't mean gawking at the Chrysler Building. I'm talking about the wing of a dragonfly. The tale of the shoeshine. Walking through an unsullied hour with an unsullied heart

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

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