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Anthony Powell Quotes

Anthony Powell quotes

British Novelist December 21, 1905 – March 28, 2000

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Anthony Powell quote: "I get a warm feeling among my books."
I get a warm feeling among my books. Anthony Powell
Anthony Powell quote: "Literature illuminates like only to those for whom books are a..."
Literature illuminates like only to those for whom books are a necessity."From a character in a novel by Anthony Powell
Anthony Powell quote: "Books do furnish a room."
Books do furnish a room. Anthony Powell
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. Anthony Powell
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
Anthony Powell quote: "It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what..."
It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them. Anthony Powell
Anthony Powell quote: "Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt..."
Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on. Anthony Powell
Anthony Powell quote: "Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime..."
Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed. Anthony Powell
Anthony Powell quote: "Self-love seems so often unrequited."
Self-love seems so often unrequited. Anthony Powell
Anthony Powell quote: "There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman..."
There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you. Anthony Powell

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