Amor Towles Quotes

When I traveled professionally in Europe, I would inevitably spend a weekend at the Hotel Costes around the corner from the Place Vendome in Paris.

Amor Towles

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Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.

Jerry Saltz

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I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.

Stephen Hawking

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Why did I write 'The Emperor of All Maladies?' A 56-year-old woman with an abdominal sarcoma, having undergone two remissions and a relapse, asked me to describe what she was battling. By the time I had finished answering her, I realised that I had written 600 pages.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

TimeWomanMeWhyWriteShe

I hope that when people see Asian women, they realize we are all different. A lot of time with Caucasian people, they just group us together as Asian. But even with different cities in China, people have different personalities... We look Asian, but we still look different. We don't look the same.

Liu Wen

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The women's movement was slow in coming to suburban New Jersey.

Judy Blume

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It's hard to encapsulate my inspiration because there are so many different looks, but I think it's just like, sexy girl you see walking down the street in a cool outfit. A lot of eyelet, a lot of leather, playing with the hard and the soft, the good and bad inside of us all.

Chloe Sevigny

GoodGirlCoolThinkSexyWalking

My typical paradigm is that I do believe in public service. My father's a military man. He really does always speak about the fact that there is actually nothing more valuable that you can do than actually to serve your country. And I buy that.

Cheryl Mills

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Mozart is expressing something that is more than human.

Colin R. Davis

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I have a vision of the world as being a lot darker, perhaps, than I did when I was 31 and wrote the 'Books of Blood'.

Clive Barker

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The quantity and quality of consciousness, one may say, have always been growing throughout geological times. In this respect man, in whom nervous organisation and therefore psychological powers have attained an undisputed maximum, may be considered, scientifically, as a natural centre of evolution of the primates.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

Phillips Brooks

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I've gotten used to not having all the responsibility on my shoulders.

Syd

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