"Learning dance steps was the sorry Saturday night pursuit of every boardinghouse girl in America."

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Source : Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.30, Penguin

Amor Towles

#Girl Quotes #Sorry Quotes #Night Quotes

“I would host a show where I take famous people out into the woods every week to find Bigfoot. I would do that. And you know what? We would find him in like a week.”
“I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.”
“Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music.”
“Chili is one of the great peasant foods. It is one of the few contributions America has made to world cuisine. Eaten with corn bread, sweet onion, sour cream, it contains all five of the elements deemed essential by the sages of the Orient: sweet, sour, salty, pungent, and bitter.”
“We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.”
“And the goal really is to make the audience laugh, to bring them some joy.”
“Well, in the first place, it leads to great anxiety as to whether it's going to be correct or not ... I expect that's the dominating feeling. It gets to be rather a fever... At age 60, when asked about his feelings on discovering the Dirac equation.”
“The greatest dishes are very simple.”

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