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“we shall investigate all the whys and wherefores of my father’s clock. For there is nothing more essential to the enjoyment of a civilized lunch than to have a lively topic of conversation.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“Even the darkest, thickest cloud shines silver when viewed from above.”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

“Here, indeed, was a formidable sentence--one that was on intimate terms with a comma, and that held the period in healthy disregard.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“He could easily pace twenty miles in a twenty-foot room. He could pace thirty miles in an opera box and fifty in a confessional.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow