List of Anthony Powell Quotes

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Anthony Powell
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He gave me a look of great contempt; as i supposed, for venturing, even by implication, to draw a parallel between a lack of affluence that might, literally, affect my purchase of rare vintages, and a figure of speech intended delicately to convey his own dire want for the bare necessities of life. he remained silent for several seconds, as if trying to make up his mind whether he could ever bring himself to speak to me again; and then said gruffly: 'i've got to go now.'
Delicate Life Vintage Mind
Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.
Portraits Process Sat
Self-love seems so often unrequited.
Love Confidence Being Yourself
You have to be a product of the product.
Products
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.
Writing Ideas Answers
[t]here is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.
Misery Tease Innate
A dance to the music of time.
Time
Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast heath robinson mechanism, dually controlled by them and lumbering gloomily down vistas of triteness. with a sort of heavy-fisted dexterity the mutually adapted emotions of each of them became synchronized, until the unavoidable anti-climax was at hand.
Hands Dexterity Emotion
Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life.
Self Giving Understanding
Dinner at the huntercombes' possessed only two dramatic features - the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy.
Food Wine Two
Writing is above all a question of instinct.
Writing Instinct
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.
Life Everyday Farce
  • Born: December 21, 1905
  • Died: March 28, 2000
  • Occupation: Novelist
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