"I've come to realize that however blue my circumstances, if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train sort of compulsion to read on, then everything is probably going to be just fine."

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Source : Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility”, p.98, Hachette UK

Amor Towles

#Blue Quotes #Missing Quotes #Finishing Quotes

“It took me 20 years to learn I couldn't tune too well. Â And by that time I was too rich to care.”
“For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I never try to get noticed. It just happens. I never try.”
“The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. When you make a choice, you activate vast human energies and resources, which otherwise go untapped.”
“I know I looked skinnier in The House Bunny, but thanks to my diet of beer and doughnuts, I'm back to my fightin' weight!'”
“So I was at the gas station the other day, and I saw that there was braille on the pumps. I don't see how they can cater to blind drivers. I mean, there are certain rights you should lose once you lose what makes you a person.”
“An architect has to build the building from the inside out, not the outside in!”
“To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.”

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