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I totally remember that: being 25 and unemployed and trying to stretch each cappuccino for 60 minutes.
~ Amor Towles
60 Minutes
Being
Each
Minutes
Remember
Stretch
Totally
Trying
Unemployed
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I've always loved reading manifestos. Collectively, they represent a triumph of style.
~ Amor Towles
Always
Collectively
Loved
Reading
Represent
Style
Triumph
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I've been writing fiction since I was a kid. From the age of 15 to 25, I probably wrote more than 50 short stories, one of which was published in 'The Paris Review' in 1989.
~ Amor Towles
Age
Been
Fiction
Kid
More
Paris
Published
Review
Short
Short Stories
Since
Stories
Than
Which
Writing
Wrote
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In 1989, I had a fellowship to teach for Yale in China for two years. I came back from California to New Haven to spend the summer learning Chinese, but because of Tiananmen Square, Yale cancelled the program.
~ Amor Towles
Back
Because
California
Came
Cancelled
China
Chinese
Fellowship
Had
Haven
I Came
Learning
New
Program
Spend
Square
Summer
Teach
Two
Yale
Years
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In my college years, I would retreat to our summer house for two weeks in June to read a novel a day. How exciting it was, after pouring my coffee and making myself comfortable on the porch, to open the next book on the roster, read the first sentences, and find myself on the platform of a train station.
~ Amor Towles
After
Book
Coffee
College
Comfortable
Day
Exciting
Find
First
House
How
June
Making
Myself
Next
Novel
Open
Our
Platform
Porch
Pouring
Read
Retreat
Sentences
Station
Summer
Train
Two
Two Weeks
Weeks
Would
Years
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In retrospect, the pace of change in the arts and industry in the nineteenth century seems pretty glacial. Painting, music, the novel, architecture were all evolving, but at a pretty observable pace.
~ Amor Towles
Architecture
Arts
Century
Change
Evolving
Industry
Music
Nineteenth
Nineteenth Century
Novel
Pace
Painting
Pretty
Retrospect
Seems
Were
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Look at Snowden or Julian Assange. In their own way, they are free without restrictions. They are dropped in a place because of political reasons.
~ Amor Towles
Because
Dropped
Free
Look
Own
Place
Political
Reasons
Restrictions
Snowden
Way
Without
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My grandmother, who was simultaneously a woman of manners and verve, fended off marriage proposals until she was 30 because she was having too much fun to settle down.
~ Amor Towles
Because
Down
Fun
Grandmother
Having
Manners
Marriage
Much
Off
Proposals
Settle
She
Simultaneously
Too
Too Much
Until
Who
Woman
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My personal challenge as an artist has been having a day job which is intellectually satisfying and fun - and thus can easily supplant the desire to make art.
~ Amor Towles
Art
Artist
Been
Challenge
Day
Day Job
Desire
Easily
Fun
Has-Been
Having
Intellectually
Job
Make
Personal
Satisfying
Thus
Which
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Of course, you wouldn't want to re-create the era of aristocracy; it was a totally unfair era. The finer aspects of it were admirable, and so there's nostalgia for that: the behavior, the values, the cultural sensitivities.
~ Amor Towles
Admirable
Aristocracy
Aspects
Behavior
Course
Cultural
Era
Finer
Nostalgia
Totally
Unfair
Values
Want
Were
You
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One restaurant I visit without fail, whenever I'm in the Bay Area, is the Boulevard at 1 Mission Street, a few strides from the waterfront. It has excellent food and wine very much in the modern California style, but I go there less for any one dish than for the pleasure of dining with the restaurant's chefs.
~ Amor Towles
Any
Area
Bay
Bay Area
Boulevard
California
Chefs
Dining
Dish
Excellent
Fail
Few
Food
Go
Less
Mission
Modern
Much
Pleasure
Restaurant
Street
Strides
Style
Than
Very
Visit
Whenever
Wine
Without
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Russia was the last to leave the 19th century and the most rapid to enter the mandates of the 20th century. It was not an evolution. It was not a slow process.
~ Amor Towles
19th Century
20th Century
Century
Enter
Evolution
Last
Leave
Mandates
Most
Process
Rapid
Russia
Slow
Slow Process
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Say I lived until 80 and read a book a month seriously, that means I was looking at 480 books left in my life. If I had only 480 left, I wanted to stop sifting through material I didn't have confidence in and turn my attention to those that I know merited my reading.
~ Amor Towles
Attention
Book
Books
Confidence
Had
Know
Left
Life
Lived
Looking
Material
Means
Month
My Life
Only
Read
Reading
Say
Seriously
Stop
Those
Through
Turn
Until
Wanted
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Some writers such as John Cheever and Raymond Carver seem to draw artistic energy from analyzing the realm of their own experiences - their social circles and memories and mores. I'm one of those who draw creative energy from the opposite.
~ Amor Towles
Analyzing
Artistic
Circles
Creative
Creative Energy
Draw
Energy
Experiences
John
Memories
Opposite
Own
Raymond
Realm
Seem
Social
Some
Those
Who
Writers
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Strangely enough, my favorite airport is Logan Airport in Boston - but largely for sentimental reasons. My first real summer job was working as a journeyman for the airport's resident maintenance crew - a small army of union electricians, plumbers, and carpenters.
~ Amor Towles
Airport
Army
Boston
Crew
Enough
Favorite
First
Job
Journeyman
Largely
Maintenance
Real
Reasons
Resident
Sentimental
Small
Strangely
Summer
Union
Working
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To a bookish boy in a Boston suburb in the mid-1970s, the lyrics of Cole Porter came as something of a revelation.
~ Amor Towles
Boston
Boy
Came
Cole Porter
Lyrics
Revelation
Something
Suburb
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We study, as Americans, the extreme aspects of repression under the Stalinist era. We're focused on them. The vast majority of Russian citizens, it was a much softer type of being disconcerted.
~ Amor Towles
American
Aspects
Being
Citizens
Era
Extreme
Focused
Majority
Much
Repression
Russian
Softer
Study
Them
Type
Vast
Vast Majority
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What can a first impression tell us about anyone? Why, no more than a chord can tell us about Beethoven, or a brushstroke about Botticelli.
~ Amor Towles
About
Anyone
Beethoven
Chord
First
First Impression
Impression
More
Tell
Than
Us
Why
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When I sat down to write 'Rules of Civility,' I didn't write it for anybody but myself. I wasn't trying to make my mark or make money. I wasn't anxious about feeding my kids or whether my father would be proud of me.
~ Amor Towles
About
Anxious
Anybody
Civility
Down
Father
Feeding
Kids
Make
Mark
Me
Money
Myself
Proud
Rules
Sat
Trying
Whether
Would
Would-Be
Write
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When I visited Moscow for the first time in 1998, I wandered into the historic Metropol Hotel as a curious tourist simply to ogle the giant painted glass ceiling that hangs over the grand restaurant off the lobby. It was the memory of that short visit that prompted me, some years later, to set 'A Gentleman in Moscow' in the hotel.
~ Amor Towles
Ceiling
Curious
First
First Time
Gentleman
Giant
Glass
Grand
Historic
Hotel
Later
Lobby
Me
Memory
Moscow
Off
Over
Painted
Prompted
Restaurant
Set
Short
Simply
Some
Time
Tourist
Visit
Visited
Wandered
Years
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