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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Dinner at the Huntercombes possessed only two dramatic features: the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy
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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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He gave me a look of great contempt; as I supposed, for venturing, even by implication, to draw a parallel between a lack of affluence that might, literally, affect my purchase of rare vintages, and a figure of speech intended delicately to convey his own dire want for the bare necessities of life. He remained silent for several seconds, as if trying to make up his mind whether he could ever bring himself to speak to me again; and then said gruffly: 'I've got to go now.'