"I suppose we don't rely on comparison enough to tell us whom it is that we are talking to. We give people the liberty of fashioning themselves in the moment-a span of time that is so much more manageable, stageable, controllable than is a lifetime."

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Source : Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.192, Penguin

Amor Towles

#Talking Quotes #People Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Suffering is there because there's something we're not understanding about our full divinity, and there are so many ways we could go into understanding.”
“The nice thing about Farscape is that you got to be the good guy and still do the bad guy things.”
“One big reason I do what I do is there's no two days alike. It's not work for me. It's my life. My passion.”
“Well, if you count my phone as an access point (which I do), I'm pretty much constantly online unless I'm at an event or practice or something.”
“Mengistu is a barbaric and cruel creature who becomes happy with the death of human beings.”
“They will never outlaw all of your guns at once. But every 'reasonable' control they can impose without your resistance gives them one more bit of leverage to make gun ownership for you and your children and your grandchildren as difficult as possible.”
“Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.”
“I believe in a world where mothers are not expected to shed any physical evidence of their child-bearing experience. In that same world I believe there is space for exercise to be as much a gift to your brain as it is your body. I don't want to waste my time striving for some subjective definition of perfection. I'd rather rebuild my strength while dancing my ***** off...literally .”

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