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Amor Towles Quotes

To a bookish boy in a Boston suburb in the mid-1970s, the lyrics of Cole Porter came as something of a revelation.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1964

Topics

Boy Boston Revelation Something Came

Crime novels have a clear beginning, middle, and end: a mystery, its investigation, and its resolution. The reader expects events to play out logically and efficiently, and these expectations force the writer to spend a good deal of time working on macrostructure rather than prettifying individual sentences.

Jesse Kellerman

Good Time Beginning End Resolution

I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me.

Me Year Group Hot Colour Theory

The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers and distinguished services have given Illinois fame in the history of the nation.

John George Nicolay

History Men Together Meetings Genius

It's true that if you advise politicians on economic policy in the U.S. today, you spend your time in a cross between inquiry and combat. You are always on the periphery of harsh partisan warfare that has nothing to do with substance.

Today Time You True Nothing Always

When I first envisioned 'Funny Games' in the mid-1990s, it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a reaction to a certain American cinema, its violence, its naivety, the way American cinema toys with human beings. In many American films, violence is made consumable.

Funny American Violence Intention

And sometimes to help them we have got to help ourselves.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

Help Sometimes Got Ourselves Them

Something inside of me just said 'Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,' and I just took off.

Steve Prefontaine

Me Wait Said Want Inside Beat

I have very little respect for the integrity of the trading on the exchange in most stocks. And I have particular disdain for the fact that the SEC has failed to deal with high-frequency traders who are doing nothing more than taking advantage of inside information, a buy or a sell order, because of technology advantages.

Integrity Technology Respect Doing

We're playing strip billiards.

Playing Billiards Strip

Some versions of crab cakes are mostly crabmeat lightly bound with egg, but I'm a firm believer that a crab cake should contain bread crumbs.

Cake Egg Bread Crab Firm Some

Every time I'm preparing a new production, I'm trying to reinvent my style and offer the audience several choices.

Time Style Choices Trying New Offer

The freedom of every artist is essential.

Freedom Artist Essential Every

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