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Anthony Powell Quotes

1905–2000 England

Anthony Dymoke Powell CH CBE (21 December 1905 – 28 March 2000) was one of the most respected English novelists of his time. He is probably best known for his twelve-volume novel sequence A Dance to the Music of Time.

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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.

A Dance to the Music of Time (1951)

Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

A Dance to the Music of Time (1951)

Parents – especially step-parents – are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fufill the promise of their early years.

A Dance to the Music of Time (1951)

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.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

A Dance to the Music of Time (1951)

[T]here is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.

A Dance to the Music of Time (1951)

People think because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Because a novel's invented, it is true. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they can't include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that. The novelist himself lays it down. His decision is binding.

A Dance to the Music of Time (1951)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Anthony Powell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.