Amor Towles Quotes
I had read Harold Bloom's 'Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?' Late in his life, having read everything, Bloom asked which books had given him wisdom. I had just read a bunch of contemporary novels that had no wisdom for me.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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I think the meaning of abortion is what the woman says it is: For a woman who wants a child but can't have this one, it can be sad; for a woman who doesn't want a baby, it can feel like a huge relief, like having your whole life given back to you.
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Dance and I are synonymous, and nobody can take away dance from my life. Also, I cannot look at dance in an inert way; it's my passion, and I get keen on being part of any show or film that has dance!
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
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Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.
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Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
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It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
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I like to be home with my son, kickin' it and watching ESPN, a very normal life. I like to take him to school every day, watch his games.
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
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The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.
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I feel like, sometimes, when things are just handed to people, in a way, right away, you don't get a sense of what the rejection and the struggle is like that comes along with life.
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Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.
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My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade school - first grade - to when I went away to college.
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We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much understood that the way to a better life was through education, books were a luxury we couldn't afford. But when I was six, we actually moved opposite the central library, and that became my home from home.
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As an assistant operations officer for a helicopter task force in Iraq, I saw my fellow Guardsmen and soldiers risk life and limb to maintain diesel fuel supply lines.
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I've got a clear line between work and real life.
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In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.
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it was the period I think of as the age of the pillow.. .What I wanted to bring out - is that which cannot be measured - I wanted to bring out the tired movement in the eyelids - the lips must look as though they are whispering - she must look as though she is breathing - I want life - what is alive. on his painting 'The sick Child'
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Finally, my life was a story. My days would no longer feel like a video game that resets to zero every time I wake up, and then begs for coins. (p. 143)
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I hear them mumblin, I hear the cacklin I got em scared, shook, panickin
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Money is a bubble that never pops. It's a consensus hallucination.
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I had read Harold Bloom's 'Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?' Late in his life, having read everything, Bloom asked which books had given him wisdom. I had just read a bunch of contemporary novels that had no wisdom for me.
