"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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Source : Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.79, Penguin

Amor Towles

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“I didn't tell Ã”tani I love him because I want to make out with him. I just love him, that's all. And I want to be with him all the time, even if we're just goofing around and hanging out like we always are.”
“People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.”

Source : Dagobert D. Runes (2015). “Treasury of Thought”, p.172, Open Road Media
“Dancing and acting satisfy me in different ways.”
“The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost arrogant. You lapse into bad taste, thinking of yourself as Heine's Atlas, whose shoulders support all the world's puzzles and agonies, as if thousands, lost in the same maze, did not endure the same agonies.”
“In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity.”
“I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion.”
“If this day means anything, it means that you are now in the contingent of the responsible. You must be kind, yes, but you must also look beyond your own house. We're depending on you for your efforts and your vision. We are depending on your eye and your imagination to identify what wrongs exist and persist, and on your hands, your backs, your efforts, to right them.”
“Preceding accomplishment must be desire. Thy desires must be strong and definite.”

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