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It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.
— Anthony Powell
A dance to the music of time.
— Anthony Powell
Wisdom is the power to admit that you cannot understand and judge the people in their entirety.
— Anthony Powell
The popular Press always talk as if only the rich committed adultery. One really can't imagine a more snobbish assumption.
— Anthony Powell
For me, Anthony Powell is a religion. I read 'A Dance to the Music of Time' every few years.
— Alan Furst
Writing is above all a question of instinct.
— Anthony Powell
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
Women may show some discrimination about whom they sleep with, but they'll marry anybody.
— Anthony Powell
Like many persons more interested in power than sensual enjoyment, Sillery touched no strong drink.
— Anthony Powell
There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you.
— Anthony Powell
I was relieved to find her attitude to myself suggested nothing more hostile than complete indifference.
— Anthony Powell
Widmerpool still represented to my mind a kind of embodiment of thankless labour and unsatisfied ambition.
— Anthony Powell
In due course one learns, where individuals and emotions are concerned, that Time's slide-rule can make unlikely adjustments.
— Anthony Powell
There is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.
— Anthony Powell
I get a warm feeling among my books.
— Anthony Powell
There is always an element of unreality, perhaps even of slight absurdity, about someone you love.
— Anthony Powell
The war seems to have altered some people out of recognition and made others more than ever like themselves,' said Isobel.
— Anthony Powell
It is, after all, envy rather than jealousy that causes most of the trouble in married life.
— Anthony Powell
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
Brains and hard work are of very little avail, Jenkins, unless you know the right people.
— Anthony Powell
He [Widmerpool] moistened his lips, though scarcely perceptibly. I thought his mixture of secretiveness and curiosity quite intolerable.
— Anthony Powell
Anthony Powell taught me to write; he has such brilliant control of the mechanics of the novel.
— Alan Furst
Maclintick's calculatedly humdrum appearance, although shabby, seemed aimed at concealing bohemian affiliations.
— Anthony Powell
I wonder whether what we call politeness isn't just weakness
— Anthony Powell
She [Lady Budd] was dressed in a manner to be described as impregnable, like a long, neat, up-to-date battle-cruiser.
— Anthony Powell
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
Books do furnish a room.
— Anthony Powell
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
In those days children were rather out of fashion.
— Anthony Powell
Reading novels needs almost as much talent as writing them.
— Anthony Powell
Only an atmosphere of quiet hard work and dull, serious conversation were appropriate to him.
— Anthony Powell
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
Where, as again Vaughan writes, the liberated soul ascends, looking at the sunset towards the west wind, and hearing secret harmonies.
— Anthony Powell
The education of the will is the end of human life.
— Anthony Powell
His physical attitude suggested a holy man doing penance vicariously for the sin of those in his spiritual care.
— Anthony Powell
Some persons feel drawn towards those who dislike them, or are at least determined to overcome opposition of that sort.
— Anthony Powell
Certain actions take place outside the normal course of things so unexpectedly that they seem to paralyse ordinary capacity for feeling surprise;
— Anthony Powell
But he also looked as if by then he knew what worry was, something certainly unknown to him in the past.
— Anthony Powell
suggestion of public service, even
— Anthony Powell
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
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
I always think one ought to be grateful to an author if one has liked even a small bit of a book.
— Anthony Powell
Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life.
— Anthony Powell
Dinner at the Huntercombes' possessed only two dramatic features - the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy.
— Anthony Powell
Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.
— Anthony Powell
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
'I'm just made that way.'
'You ought to fight it.'
'I can't see why. — Anthony Powell
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
One's capacity for hearing about ghastly doings lessens with age.
— Anthony Powell
Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.
— Anthony Powell
Outside, the detonation of loudly-slammed taxi doors, suggesting the opening of a cannonade, had died down.
— Anthony Powell
The army is at once the worst place for egoists, and the best.
— Anthony Powell
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
His mastery of the hard-luck story was of a kind never achieved by persons not wholly concentrated on themselves.
— Anthony Powell
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
There is always a real and an imaginary person you are in love with; sometimes you love one best, sometimes the other.
— Anthony Powell
His daughters had lived their early life in permanent disgrace for having, none of them, been born a boy.
— Anthony Powell
Their behaviour exemplified two different sides of life, in spite of some outward similarity in their tastes.
— Anthony Powell
You have to be a product of the product.
— Anthony Powell
Romantic ideas about the way life is lived are often to be found in persons themselves fairly coarse-grained.
— Anthony Powell
The Jew's really the better-looking.
— Anthony Powell
Barnby always dismissed the idea of intelligence in a woman as no more than a characteristic to be endured.
— Anthony Powell
Bring a torch, if you've got one. It's as dark as hell and stinks of something far worse than cheese.
— Anthony Powell
God is able to make all grace abound toward you that you alway having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work
— Anthony B. Powell