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Anthony Powell
British
Novelist
About the author
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,
British
Novelist
#Children
#Years
#Promise
#Parents
#Disappointment
Self-love seems so often unrequited.
Anthony Powell,
British
Novelist
#Self
Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.
Anthony Powell,
British
Novelist
#Children
#Years
#Promise
#Parents
#Disappointment
Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
Anthony Powell,
British
Novelist
#Being
#Crime
#Old
Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.
Anthony Powell,
British
Novelist
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,
British
Novelist
#Love
#First
#Self
#Passion
#Sight
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,
British
Novelist
#People
#Circumstance
#Biography
Books do furnish a room.
Anthony Powell,
British
Novelist
#Books