Anthony Powell Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.”
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“Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.”
-- Anthony PowellSource : Anthony Powell (2010). “The Valley of Bones: Book 7 of A Dance to the Music of Time”, p.221, University of Chicago Press
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“It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.”
-- Anthony PowellSource : Anthony Powell (2010). “Books Do Furnish a Room: Book 10 of A Dance to the Music of Time”, p.141, University of Chicago Press
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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.”
-- Anthony PowellSource : Anthony Powell (2010). “The Valley of Bones: Book 7 of A Dance to the Music of Time”, p.221, University of Chicago Press
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“Books do furnish a room.”
-- Anthony PowellSource : Title of novel (1971)
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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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“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 PowellSource : Anthony Powell (2010). “Hearing Secret Harmonies: Book 12 of A Dance to the Music of Time”, p.84, University of Chicago Press
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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.”
-- Anthony PowellSource : Anthony Powell (1995). “A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement”, University of Chicago Press
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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.”
-- Anthony PowellSource : Anthony Powell (1995). “A Dance to the Music of Time: Third Movement”, p.161, University of Chicago Press
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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.”
-- Anthony PowellSource : Anthony Powell (1995). “A Dance to the Music of Time: Second Movement”, University of Chicago Press
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“There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you.”
-- Anthony PowellSource : Anthony Powell (2010). “The Acceptance World: Book 3 of A Dance to the Music of Time”, p.130, University of Chicago Press
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“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 PowellSource : Anthony Powell (2010). “A Question of Upbringing: Book 1 of A Dance to the Music of Time”, p.51, University of Chicago Press
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