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Anthony Powell Quotes

A dance to the music of time Picture Quote #1

Dinner at the Huntercombes’ possessed only two dramatic features - the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy Picture Quote #1

Dinner at the Huntercombes possessed only two dramatic features the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy Picture Quote #1

He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited Picture Quote #1

Parents - especially step - parents - are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don’t fulfill the promise of their early years Picture Quote #1

He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self - love seems so often unrequited Picture Quote #1

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Here is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing Picture Quote #1

Books do furnish a room Picture Quote #1

All women are stimulated by the news that any wife has left any husband Picture Quote #1

Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work Picture Quote #1

I get a warm feeling among my books Picture Quote #1

Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity Picture Quote #1

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Self-love seems so often unrequited Picture Quote #1

I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed on only to those who possess them already Picture Quote #1

Parents... are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don’t fulfil the promise of their early years Picture Quote #1

One of the worst things about life is not how nasty the nasty people are. You know that already. It is how nasty the nice people can be Picture Quote #1

On the stage... masks are assumed with some regard to procedure; in everyday life, the participants act their parts without consideration either for suitability of scene or for the words spoken by the rest of the cast: the result is a general tendency for things to be brought to the level of farce even when the theme is serious enough Picture Quote #1

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on Picture Quote #1

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Growing old’s like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed Picture Quote #1

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don’t fulfill the promise of their early years Picture Quote #1

People think that because a novel’s invented, it isn’t true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that Picture Quote #1

When people really hate one another, the tension within them can sometimes make itself felt throughout a room, like atmospheric waves, first hot, then cold, wafted backwards and forwards as if in an invisible process of air conditioning, creating a pervasive physical disturbance Picture Quote #1

One passes through the world knowing few, if any, of the important things about even the people with whom one has been from time to time in the closest intimacy Picture Quote #1

There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you Picture Quote #1

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It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them Picture Quote #1

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A dance to the music of time (Anthony Powell Quotes) Dinner at the Huntercombes’ possessed only two dramatic features - the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy. (Anthony Powell Quotes) Dinner at the Huntercombes possessed only two dramatic features the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy (Anthony Powell Quotes) He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited. (Anthony Powell Quotes) Parents - especially step - parents - are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don’t fulfill the promise of their early years (Anthony Powell Quotes) He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self - love seems so often unrequited (Anthony Powell Quotes) Here is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing (Anthony Powell Quotes) Books do furnish a room (Anthony Powell Quotes) All women are stimulated by the news that any wife has left any husband (Anthony Powell Quotes) Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work (Anthony Powell Quotes) I get a warm feeling among my books (Anthony Powell Quotes) Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity (Anthony Powell Quotes) Self-love seems so often unrequited (Anthony Powell Quotes) I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed on only to those who possess them already (Anthony Powell Quotes) Parents... are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don’t fulfil the promise of their early years (Anthony Powell Quotes) One of the worst things about life is not how nasty the nasty people are. You know that already. It is how nasty the nice people can be (Anthony Powell Quotes) On the stage... masks are assumed with some regard to procedure; in everyday life, the participants act their parts without consideration either for suitability of scene or for the words spoken by the rest of the cast: the result is a general tendency for things to be brought to the level of farce even when the theme is serious enough (Anthony Powell Quotes) Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on (Anthony Powell Quotes) Growing old’s like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed (Anthony Powell Quotes) Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don’t fulfill the promise of their early years (Anthony Powell Quotes) People think that because a novel’s invented, it isn’t true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that (Anthony Powell Quotes) When people really hate one another, the tension within them can sometimes make itself felt throughout a room, like atmospheric waves, first hot, then cold, wafted backwards and forwards as if in an invisible process of air conditioning, creating a pervasive physical disturbance (Anthony Powell Quotes) One passes through the world knowing few, if any, of the important things about even the people with whom one has been from time to time in the closest intimacy (Anthony Powell Quotes) There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you (Anthony Powell Quotes) It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them (Anthony Powell Quotes)