Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler. Depending on the city and on the traveler, there might begin a mutual love, or dislike, friendship, or enmity. Where one city will rise a certain individual to glory, it will destroy another...
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Roman Payne
Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.
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Lois McMaster Bujold
Between natural ability and education choose natural ability, as it will keep you happy and will fetch you the glory sooner.
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Amit Kalantri
Glory of the world makes life meaningless. Glory of God fulfills it.
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Indonesia123
Beasts bounding through time. Van Gogh writing his brother for paints Hemingway testing his shotgun Celine going broke as a doctor of medicinethe impossibility of being human Villon expelled from Paris for being a thief Faulkner drunk in the gutters of his townthe impossibility of...
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Charles Bukowski
More Quotes By Amor Towles
You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
Outrage is easy, cheap, and oversold. The nation needs less anger and more thoughtful reflection, less shouting and more listening, less dissembling and more honesty.
Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.
Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right it's ended up not being right.
I guess a psychiatrist would say there's some good to the venting process, but it does also promote an attitude of saying, 'Hey there's nothing wrong with being filled with hate; there's so much of it around.' I don't like that.