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.
Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. - Anthony Powell
Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.
- Anthony Powell
Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years. - Anthony Powell
Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years.
[T]here is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing. - Anthony Powell
[T]here is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.
It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them. - Anthony Powell
It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.
Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson mechanism, dually … - Anthony Powell
Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson mechanism, dually …
For reasons not always at the time explicable, there are specific occasions when events begin suddenly to take on a significance previously unsuspect… - Anthony Powell
For reasons not always at the time explicable, there are specific occasions when events begin suddenly to take on a significance previously unsuspect…
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. - Anthony Powell
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.
He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Selflove seems so often unrequited. - Anthony Powell
He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Selflove seems so often unrequited.
Dinner at the Huntercombes' possessed only two dramatic features - the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy. - Anthony Powell
Dinner at the Huntercombes' possessed only two dramatic features - the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy.
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