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This quote is just one of 8 total Anthony Powell quotes in our collection. Anthony Powell is known for saying '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.' as well as some of the following quotes.
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.
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.
Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson mechanism, dually controlled by them and lumbering gloomily down vistas of triteness. With a sort of heavy-fisted dexterity the mutually adapted emotions of each of them became synchronized, until the unavoidable anti-climax was at hand.
An immediate, overpowering, almost mystic sense of relief took shape within me. I felt suddenly sure everything was going to be all right. This was something quite apart from even the most cursory reflection upon strategic implications involved.
This quote is just one of 8 total Anthony Powell quotes in our collection. Anthony Powell is known for saying '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.' as well as some of the following quotes.