Anthony Powell Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Anthony Powell:

Self-love seems so often unrequited.
~Anthony Powell


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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 Powell


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Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.
~Anthony Powell


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/anthony-powell-quotes/#b6dcbbca

Books do furnish a room.
~Anthony Powell


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/anthony-powell-quotes/#786a0706

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.
~Anthony Powell


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/anthony-powell-quotes/#6f51bb0c

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/anthony-powell-quotes/#5ac3a55a

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/anthony-powell-quotes/#4c704656

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/anthony-powell-quotes/#783aa8d5

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