“ An exceedingly wellinformed report,' said the General. 'You have given yourself the trouble to go into matters thoroughly, I see. That is one of the secrets of success in life. ”
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“ For some reason, the sight of snow descending on fire always makes me think of the ancient world – legionaries in sheepskin warming themselves at a brazier: mountain altars where offerings glow between wintry pillars; centaurs with torches cantering beside a frozen sea – scattered, uncoordinated shapes from a fabulous past, infinitely removed from life; and yet bringing with them memories of things real and imagined. These classical projections, and something in the physical attitudes of the men themselves as they turned from the fire, suddenly suggested Poussin’s scene in which the Seasons, hand in hand and facing outward, tread in rhythm to the notes of the lyre that the winged and naked greybeard plays. The image of Time brought thoughts of mortality: of human beings, facing outwards like the Seasons, moving hand in hand in intricate measure: stepping slowly, methodically, sometimes a trifle awkwardly, in evolutions that take recognisable shape: or breaking into seeminly meaningless gyrations, while partners disappear only to reappear again, once more giving pattern to the spectacle: unable to control the melody, unable, perhaps, to control the steps of the dance. ”
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“ Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. ”
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“ Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. ”
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“ Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on. ”
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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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“ Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed. ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years. ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ 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. ”
- Anthony Powell- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Anthony Powell- Copy
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“ Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years. ”
- Anthony Powell- Copy
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“ Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years. ”
- Anthony Powell- Copy
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“ Parents - especially step-parents - are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years. ”
- Anthony Powell- Copy
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“ 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. ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years. ”
- Anthony Powell- Copy
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“ Parents - especially step-parents - are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years. ”
- Anthony Powell- Copy
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“ Parents - especially step-parents - are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years. ”
- Anthony Powell- Copy
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“ Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years. ”
- Anthony Powell- Copy
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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 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. ”
- Anthony Powell- Copy
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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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