"For however inhospitable the wind, from this vantage point Manhattan was simply so improbable, so wonderful, so obviously full of promise - that you wanted to approach it for the rest of your life without ever quite arriving."

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Source : Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.229, Penguin

Amor Towles

#Wind Quotes #Promise Quotes #Vantage Point Quotes

“The Devil is a woman.”
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“The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.”

Source : "Frequent Flyer Humor and One-Upmanship". Book by George W. Stewart, Dog Ear Publishing, p. 12, 2011.
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