Quote by Anthony Powell Download Open image ““A residuum of the experience was inevitable.”” — Anthony Powell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Some things were inevitable. You'd have to be a fool to think otherwise.” — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
“I wasn't prepared for the intensity of it.It was like going from blissful emptiness to experiencing a roller coaster of sensations all at once.” — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
“Occasion revived an illusion of discovery, as if one woke in a strange room to wonder afresh not only where but who one was;… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
“It would in retrospect appear to be a stop on a narrative path that was inevitable, but this is only because most events, most… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“The more we try to avoid an experience, the more we ensure its return.” — Rodney Smith Copy Share Image
“It felt as if everything that had happened so far in my life had been leading me to this point, preparing me for this… — Roz Savage Copy Share Image
“the pursuit of experience is the refuge of the unimaginative.” — Hubert Crackanthorpe Copy Share Image
“affectation of assuming everything was alive and potentially recalcitrant,” — John le Carré Copy Share Image
“There was a sense of being in the midst of something having prodigious weight and volume but no form, of being utterly unable to… — Thomas Gallagher Copy Share Image
“I had that sensation which sometimes comes to us all, of returning to a situation that had already been resolved on some previous occasion,… — Paul Scott 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
