Best Quotes by Anthony Powell (Top 10)
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I get a warm feeling among my books.
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Books do furnish a room.
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Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
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It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.
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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.
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Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.
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There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you.
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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.
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Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.
Anthony Powell
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Self-love seems so often unrequited.
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More Anthony Powell Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years.
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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.
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[T]here is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.
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He gave me a look of great contempt; as I supposed, for venturing, even by implication, to draw a parallel between a lack of affluence that might, literally, affect my purchase of rare vintages, and a figure of speech intended delicately to convey his own dire want for the bare necessities of life. He remained silent for several seconds, as if trying to make up his mind whether he could ever bring himself to speak to me again; and then said gruffly: 'I've got to go now.'
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Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson mechanism, dually controlled by them and lumbering gloomily down vistas of triteness. With a sort of heavy-fisted dexterity the mutually adapted emotions of each of them became synchronized, until the unavoidable anti-climax was at hand.
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For reasons not always at the time explicable, there are specific occasions when events begin suddenly to take on a significance previously unsuspected, so that, before we really know where we are, life seems to have begun in earnest at last, and we ourselves, scarcely aware that any change has taken place, are careering uncontrollably down the slippery avenues of eternity.
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