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Anthony Powell quotes: It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them. It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.
Anthony Powell quotes: A dance to the music of time. A dance to the music of time.
Anthony Powell quotes: Wisdom is the power to admit that you cannot understand and judge the people in their entirety. Wisdom is the power to admit that you cannot understand and judge the people in their entirety.
Anthony Powell quotes: The popular Press always talk as if only the rich committed adultery. One really can't imagine a more snobbish assumption. The popular Press always talk as if only the rich committed adultery. One really can't imagine a more snobbish assumption.
Anthony Powell quotes: Writing is above all a question of instinct. Writing is above all a question of instinct.
Anthony Powell quotes: Perhaps these are inward irritations always produced by love: the acutely sensitive nerves of intimacy: the haunting fear that all may not go well. Perhaps these are inward irritations always produced by love: the acutely sensitive nerves of intimacy: the haunting fear that all may not go well.
Anthony Powell quotes: Women may show some discrimination about whom they sleep with, but they'll marry anybody. Women may show some discrimination about whom they sleep with, but they'll marry anybody.
Anthony Powell quotes: Like many persons more interested in power than sensual enjoyment, Sillery touched no strong drink. Like many persons more interested in power than sensual enjoyment, Sillery touched no strong drink.
Anthony Powell quotes: There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you. There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you.
Anthony Powell quotes: What a shabby lot of highbrows have turned out tonight," he said, when he saw us. "It makes me ashamed to be one. What a shabby lot of highbrows have turned out tonight," he said, when he saw us. "It makes me ashamed to be one.
Anthony Powell quotes: Brains and hard work are of very little avail, Jenkins, unless you know the right people. Brains and hard work are of very little avail, Jenkins, unless you know the right people.
Anthony Powell quotes: It is, after all, envy rather than jealousy that causes most of the trouble in married life. It is, after all, envy rather than jealousy that causes most of the trouble in married life.
Anthony Powell quotes: The war seems to have altered some people out of recognition and made others more than ever like themselves,' said Isobel. The war seems to have altered some people out of recognition and made others more than ever like themselves,' said Isobel.
Anthony Powell quotes: I was relieved to find her attitude to myself suggested nothing more hostile than complete indifference. I was relieved to find her attitude to myself suggested nothing more hostile than complete indifference.
Anthony Powell quotes: There is always an element of unreality, perhaps even of slight absurdity, about someone you love. There is always an element of unreality, perhaps even of slight absurdity, about someone you love.
Anthony Powell quotes: I get a warm feeling among my books. I get a warm feeling among my books.
Anthony Powell quotes: There is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing. There is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.
Anthony Powell quotes: In due course one learns, where individuals and emotions are concerned, that Time's slide-rule can make unlikely adjustments. In due course one learns, where individuals and emotions are concerned, that Time's slide-rule can make unlikely adjustments.
Anthony Powell quotes: Even the formal measure of the Seasons seemed suspended in the wintry silence. Even the formal measure of the Seasons seemed suspended in the wintry silence.
Anthony Powell quotes: Widmerpool still represented to my mind a kind of embodiment of thankless labour and unsatisfied ambition. Widmerpool still represented to my mind a kind of embodiment of thankless labour and unsatisfied ambition.
Anthony Powell quotes: Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.
Anthony Powell quotes: She glided away towards the lift, which seemed hardly needed, with its earthly and mechanical paraphernalia, to bear her up to the higher levels. She glided away towards the lift, which seemed hardly needed, with its earthly and mechanical paraphernalia, to bear her up to the higher levels.
Anthony Powell quotes: His physical attitude suggested a holy man doing penance vicariously for the sin of those in his spiritual care. His physical attitude suggested a holy man doing penance vicariously for the sin of those in his spiritual care.
Anthony Powell quotes: The education of the will is the end of human life. The education of the will is the end of human life.
Anthony Powell quotes: Where, as again Vaughan writes, the liberated soul ascends, looking at the sunset towards the west wind, and hearing secret harmonies. Where, as again Vaughan writes, the liberated soul ascends, looking at the sunset towards the west wind, and hearing secret harmonies.
Anthony Powell quotes: The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd - one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like - one writes novels about it. The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd - one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like - one writes novels about it.
Anthony Powell quotes: Only an atmosphere of quiet hard work and dull, serious conversation were appropriate to him. Only an atmosphere of quiet hard work and dull, serious conversation were appropriate to him.
Anthony Powell quotes: Reading novels needs almost as much talent as writing them. Reading novels needs almost as much talent as writing them.
Anthony Powell quotes: In those days children were rather out of fashion. In those days children were rather out of fashion.
Anthony Powell quotes: He [Widmerpool] moistened his lips, though scarcely perceptibly. I thought his mixture of secretiveness and curiosity quite intolerable. He [Widmerpool] moistened his lips, though scarcely perceptibly. I thought his mixture of secretiveness and curiosity quite intolerable.
Anthony Powell quotes: Books do furnish a room. Books do furnish a room.
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. 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: She [Lady Budd] was dressed in a manner to be described as impregnable, like a long, neat, up-to-date battle-cruiser. She [Lady Budd] was dressed in a manner to be described as impregnable, like a long, neat, up-to-date battle-cruiser.
Anthony Powell quotes: I want an immediate explanation of the infernal muddle your incompetence has made. I want an immediate explanation of the infernal muddle your incompetence has made.
Anthony Powell quotes: I wonder whether what we call politeness isn't just weakness I wonder whether what we call politeness isn't just weakness
Anthony Powell quotes: Maclintick's calculatedly humdrum appearance, although shabby, seemed aimed at concealing bohemian affiliations. Maclintick's calculatedly humdrum appearance, although shabby, seemed aimed at concealing bohemian affiliations.
Anthony Powell quotes: Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work. Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.
Anthony Powell quotes: My brother is a strange fellow, said Bernard, speaking with terrible bonhomie. My brother is a strange fellow, said Bernard, speaking with terrible bonhomie.
Anthony Powell quotes: But he also looked as if by then he knew what worry was, something certainly unknown to him in the past. But he also looked as if by then he knew what worry was, something certainly unknown to him in the past.
Anthony Powell quotes: suggestion of public service, even suggestion of public service, even
Anthony Powell quotes: It was, however, in keeping with the way my uncle conducted his life that he should reach his destination without knowing the name of the goal. It was, however, in keeping with the way my uncle conducted his life that he should reach his destination without knowing the name of the goal.
Anthony Powell quotes: In the break-up of a marriage the world inclines to take the side of the partner with most vitality, rather than the one apparently least to blame. In the break-up of a marriage the world inclines to take the side of the partner with most vitality, rather than the one apparently least to blame.
Anthony Powell quotes: I always think one ought to be grateful to an author if one has liked even a small bit of a book. I always think one ought to be grateful to an author if one has liked even a small bit of a book.
Anthony Powell quotes: Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life. Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life.
Anthony Powell quotes: Dinner at the Huntercombes' possessed only two dramatic features - the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy. Dinner at the Huntercombes' possessed only two dramatic features - the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy.
Anthony Powell quotes: Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on. Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.
Anthony Powell quotes: Why are you so stuck up?' she asked, truculently.'I'm just made that way.''You ought to fight it.''I can't see why. Why are you so stuck up?' she asked, truculently.
'I'm just made that way.'
'You ought to fight it.'
'I can't see why.
Anthony Powell quotes: As a child you are in some ways more acutely aware of what people feel about one another than you are when childhood has come to an end. As a child you are in some ways more acutely aware of what people feel about one another than you are when childhood has come to an end.
Anthony Powell quotes: One's capacity for hearing about ghastly doings lessens with age. One's capacity for hearing about ghastly doings lessens with age.
Anthony Powell quotes: Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years. Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.
Anthony Powell quotes: Outside, the detonation of loudly-slammed taxi doors, suggesting the opening of a cannonade, had died down. Outside, the detonation of loudly-slammed taxi doors, suggesting the opening of a cannonade, had died down.
Anthony Powell quotes: The army is at once the worst place for egoists, and the best. The army is at once the worst place for egoists, and the best.
Anthony Powell quotes: Some persons feel drawn towards those who dislike them, or are at least determined to overcome opposition of that sort. Some persons feel drawn towards those who dislike them, or are at least determined to overcome opposition of that sort.
Anthony Powell quotes: The latter's boast that he had never read a book for pleasure in his life did not predispose me in his favour. The latter's boast that he had never read a book for pleasure in his life did not predispose me in his favour.
Anthony Powell quotes: His mastery of the hard-luck story was of a kind never achieved by persons not wholly concentrated on themselves. His mastery of the hard-luck story was of a kind never achieved by persons not wholly concentrated on themselves.
Anthony Powell quotes: In short, the persons we see most clearly are not necessarily those we know best. In short, the persons we see most clearly are not necessarily those we know best.
Anthony Powell quotes: I was far from understanding that the capacity of men interested in power is not necessarily expressed in the brilliance of their conversation. I was far from understanding that the capacity of men interested in power is not necessarily expressed in the brilliance of their conversation.
Anthony Powell quotes: There is always a real and an imaginary person you are in love with; sometimes you love one best, sometimes the other. There is always a real and an imaginary person you are in love with; sometimes you love one best, sometimes the other.
Anthony Powell quotes: His daughters had lived their early life in permanent disgrace for having, none of them, been born a boy. His daughters had lived their early life in permanent disgrace for having, none of them, been born a boy.
Anthony Powell quotes: Their behaviour exemplified two different sides of life, in spite of some outward similarity in their tastes. Their behaviour exemplified two different sides of life, in spite of some outward similarity in their tastes.
Anthony Powell quotes: You have to be a product of the product. You have to be a product of the product.
Anthony Powell quotes: Romantic ideas about the way life is lived are often to be found in persons themselves fairly coarse-grained. Romantic ideas about the way life is lived are often to be found in persons themselves fairly coarse-grained.
Anthony Powell quotes: The Jew's really the better-looking. The Jew's really the better-looking.
Anthony Powell quotes: Barnby always dismissed the idea of intelligence in a woman as no more than a characteristic to be endured. Barnby always dismissed the idea of intelligence in a woman as no more than a characteristic to be endured.
Anthony Powell quotes: Bring a torch, if you've got one. It's as dark as hell and stinks of something far worse than cheese. Bring a torch, if you've got one. It's as dark as hell and stinks of something far worse than cheese.
Anthony Powell quotes: Certain actions take place outside the normal course of things so unexpectedly that they seem to paralyse ordinary capacity for feeling surprise; Certain actions take place outside the normal course of things so unexpectedly that they seem to paralyse ordinary capacity for feeling surprise;
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. 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: He seemed about to speak; then, as if he could not give sufficient weight to the words while we walked, he stopped and faced me. He seemed about to speak; then, as if he could not give sufficient weight to the words while we walked, he stopped and faced me.

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