But I've come to realie that however blue my circumstance,s 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.
Amor TowlesAnyone can buy a car or a night on the town. Most of us shell our days like peanuts. One in a thousand can look at the world with amazement. I don't mean gawking at the Chrysler Building. I'm talking about the wing of a dragonfly. The tale of the shoeshine. Walking through an unsullied hour with an unsullied heart.
Amor TowlesStichwörter: wonder amazement being-present childlike-wonder
be careful when choosing what you're proud of - because the world had every intention of using it against you
Amor TowlesHe had that certain confidence in his bearing, that democratic interest in his surroundings, and that understated presumption of friendliness that are only found in young men who have been raised in the company of money and manners. It didn't occur to people liek this that they might be unwelcome in a new environment - and as a result they rarely were.
Amor TowlesIf 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.
Amor TowlesStichwörter: new-york-city
In the doleful court behind my building a patchwork of windows was all that separated me from a hundred muted lives being led without mystery or menace or magic.
Amor TowlesI found myself intent on keeping the memories of the year to myself.
[...]
I didn't want to share them. Because I didn't want to dilute them
Katey's the hottest bookworm you'll ever meet. If you took all the books that she's read and piled them in a stack, you could climb to the Milky Way.
Amor TowlesI love Val. I love my job and my New York. I have no doubts that they were the right choices for me. And at the same time, I know that right choices by definition are the means by which life crystallizes loss.
Amor TowlesThat's the problem with being born in New York, the old newsman observed a little sadly. You've got no New York to run away to.
Amor TowlesStichwörter: new-york-city amor-towles rules-of-civility
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