"If Broadway was a river running from the top of Manhattan down to the Battery, undulating with traffic and commerce and lights, then the east-west streets were eddies where, leaf-like, one could turn slow circles from the beginning to the ever shall be, world without end."

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Source : Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.84, Penguin

Amor Towles

#Running Quotes #Light Quotes #Circles Quotes

“There is a fool born every minute”
“If you chance your focus - you will change your life.”
“We''re all misfits here,â€ he says, almost proudly. â€œThat's why I started this squat, after all. Â For people like us, who don't fit in anywhere else. Â Halfies and homos and hopeless romantics, the outcast and outrageous and terminally weird. Â That's where art comes from, Jimmy, my friend. Â From our weirdnesses and our differences, from our manic fixations, our obsessions, our passions. Â From all those wild and wacky things that make each of us unique.”
“Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.”

Source : "De Institutione Oratoria", XII. 5, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 289-93, 1922.
“Naturally and logically, people who forage rather than herd domestic beasts and tend crops for a living - that is, people who depend utterly on wild as opposed to agriculture nature for their welfare - inevitably come to view themselves as merely an element of it all, one member of an egalitarian community, alternately eating and being eaten.”
“I might not be a good socialist, any more than I'm a good Christian, but I am one.”
“I guess you will have to go to jail. If that is the result of not understanding the Income Tax Law, I will meet you there. We shall have a merry, merry time, for all our friends will be there. It will be an intellectual center, for no one understands the Income Tax Law except persons who have not sufficient intelligence to understand the questions that arise under it.”
“I'm absolutely, 100 percent, not guilty.”

Source : Plea at murder trial, Los Angeles, Cal., 22 July 1994

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