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Anyone can buy a car or a night on the town. Most of us shell our days like peanuts. One in a thousand can look at the world with amazement. I don't mean gawking at the Chrysler Building. I'm talking about the wing of a dragonfly. The tale of the shoeshine. Walking through an unsullied hour with an unsullied heart

Amor Towles

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Amor Towles
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: October 24
Author
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Boston
Massachusetts
Heart
Days
Town
Chrysler
Like
Anyone
Towns
Peanuts
World
Hours
Wings
Amazement
Talking
Hour
Shell
Night
Car
Shells
Look
Walking
Tale
Dragonfly
Looks
Thousand
Wing
Unsullied
Mean
Building
Tales
Dragonflies

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