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Anthony Powell [1905-2000] British

Rank: 107
Novelist

Anthony Dymoke Powell CH CBE was an English novelist best known for his twelve-volume work A Dance to the Music of Time, published between 1951 and 1975.

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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.		101
Self-love seems so often unrequited.		102
Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.		103
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.		104
Parents - especially step-parents - are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.		105
Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.		106
Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.		107
Books do furnish a room.		108

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