Anthony Powell
Anthony Powell
Anthony Dymoke Powell CH CBEwas an English novelist best known for his twelve-volume work A Dance to the Music of Time, published between 1951 and 1975...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 December 1905
products
You have to be a product of the product.
disappointment children years
Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years.
book reading rooms
Books do furnish a room.
knowing people important
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.
life everyday farce
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.
self giving understanding
Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life.
taken events lasts
For reasons not always at the time explicable, there are specific occasions when events begin suddenly to take on a significance previously unsuspected, so that, before we really know where we are, life seems to have begun in earnest at last, and we ourselves, scarcely aware that any change has taken place, are careering uncontrollably down the slippery avenues of eternity.
passion conceited sight
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.
hate air creating
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.
nice people nasty
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.
book facts literature
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.
thinking people significant
It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.
writing ideas answers
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.
book literature
Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.