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
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Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.
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Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
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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. Self-love seems so often unrequited.
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An immediate, overpowering, almost mystic sense of relief took shape within me. I felt suddenly sure everything was going to be all right. This was something quite apart from even the most cursory reflection upon strategic implications involved.
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Dinner at the Huntercombes possessed only two dramatic features: the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy
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It's more about faith and how God speaks to you and how it happens. I don't think I've worked on a play with such an even keel.