I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
One passes through the world knowing few, if any, of the important things about even the people with whom one has been… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“...Even when you have ceased to love someone, that does not necessarily bring an indifference to a past shared together. Besides, though… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“For some reason, the sight of snow descending on fire always makes me think of the ancient world—legionaries in sheepskin warming themselves… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“He laughed a lot, and this would have been the moment to leave him, and go on our way. We should probably… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“At the same time, the notion that he was entirely actuated by ‘rational’ motives was also no doubt far from the truth.… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“ The barman came to the other side of the counter. "Time please," he said. Harriet said: "You mustn't hurry a lady drinking… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“the sombre demands of the past becoming at times almost suffocating in their insistence.” — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“That morning was the last time I saw Moreland. It was also the last time I had, with anyone, the sort of… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“It was realisation, in a moment of time, not only of her own possibilities, far from inconsiderable ones, but also of other… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“I had never previously met him, but I had seen him and knew his name well, because he was one of those… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
For reasons not always at the time explicable, there are specific occasions when events begin suddenly to take on a significance previously… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“Speaking about time’s relentless passage, Powell’s narrator compares certain stages of experience to the game of Russian Billiards as once he used… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“For some reason, the sight of snow descending on fire always makes me think of the ancient world – legionaries in sheepskin… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“Like everything that's any good, it has about twenty different meanings.” — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“I have absolutely no histrionic talent, none at all, a constitutional handicap in almost all undertakings of life;but then, after all, plenty of actors… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years. — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“Her expression was oafish, but it was on the whole this quality that gave her face a certain retentive efficacy. She had the look… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“Enormous simplifications were possibly necessary to carry a deeper truth than lay on the surface of a mass of unsorted detail.” — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“I hate anything superficial. But I will take the book and look at it, and tell you what I think of the writing.” — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“It is rather an occasion, darling,’ said Moreland, vexed at these objections. ‘After all, I am noted among composers for the smallness of my… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“There seemed no particular object in avoiding banality from the start, as the evening showed every sign of developing into a banal one.” — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
Dinner at the Huntercombes possessed only two dramatic features: the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
