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I prefer to put myself in an environment that's further afield and look through the eyes of someone who differs from me in age, ethnicity, gender, and/or social class. I think a little displacement makes me a sharper observer.

~Amor Towles

Topics: Age Class Differs Displacement Environment Ethnicity Eyes Further Gender Little Look Makes Me Myself Observer Prefer Put Sharper Social Social Class Someone Think Through Who I Think

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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

Topics: 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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As a traveler, I should probably count myself fortunate to be living in the jet age, and as an author, I know I am lucky to have a book tour at all.

~Amor Towles

Topics: Age Am Author Book Book Tour Count Fortunate Jet Know Living Lucky Myself Should Tour Traveler I Am

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You can build a place that is beautiful, but nobody feels comfortable sitting in it, and the kids aren't allowed to go into many of the rooms. Or a place can look lived in, but it doesn't please the eye.

~Amor Towles

Topics: Allowed Beautiful Build Comfortable Eye Feels Go Kids Lived Look Many Nobody Place Please Rooms Sitting You

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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

Topics: About Anyone Beethoven Chord First First Impression Impression More Tell Than Us Why

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By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration but our reconsideration.

~Amor Towles

Topics: Beings Complex Consideration Contradictory Deserve Human Human Beings Nature Only Our Very

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In the contemporary world, we think of politeness as surface behavior, like frosting - it's sweet and attractive and finishes off the cake. But 19th century nobility and the enlightened thinkers and stoics before them viewed manners in a very different way. To them, manners are an outward expression of an inward struggle.

~Amor Towles

Topics: Attractive Before Behavior Cake Century Contemporary Different Different Way Enlightened Expression Finishes Inward Like Manners Nobility Off Outward Politeness Struggle Surface Sweet Them Think Thinkers Very Viewed Way World 19Th Century

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Every year, I would spend weeks at a time in the hotels of distant cities.

~Amor Towles

Topics: Cities Distant Every Hotels Spend Time Weeks Would Year

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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

Topics: Age Been Fiction Kid More Paris Published Review Short Short Stories Since Stories Than Which Writing Wrote

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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

Topics: Art Artist Been Challenge Day Day Job Desire Easily Fun Having Intellectually Job Make Personal Satisfying Thus Which

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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