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“His mastery of the hard luck story was of a kind never achieved by persons not wholly concentrated on themselves.” (A Dance to the Music of Time Quotes)
Anthony Powell
A Dance to the Music of Time
“I was relieved to find her attitude to myself suggested nothing more hostile than complete indifference.”
Anthony Powell
A Dance to the Music of Time
“If certain individuals fall in love from motives of convenience, they can be contrasted with plenty of others in whom passion seems principally aroused by the intensity of administrative difficulties in procuring its satisfaction.”
Anthony Powell
A Dance to the Music of Time
“If you’re not careful you will suffer the awful fate of the man who always knows the right clothes to wear and the right shop to buy them at.”
Anthony Powell
A Dance to the Music of Time
“In the break-up of a marriage the world inclines to take the side of the partner with most vitality, rather than the one apparently least to blame.”
Anthony Powell
A Dance to the Music of Time
“Later in life, I learnt that many things one may require have to be weighed against one’s dignity, which can be an insuperable barrier against advancement in almost any direction. However, in those days, choice between dignity and unsatisfied curiosity was less clear to me as a cruel decision that had to be made.”
Anthony Powell
A Dance to the Music of Time
“There is a strong disposition in youth, from which some individuals never escape, to suppose that everyone else is having a more enjoyable time than we are ourselves.”
Anthony Powell
A Dance to the Music of Time
“There is always a real and an imaginary person you are in love with; sometimes you love one best, sometimes the other.”
Anthony Powell
A Dance to the Music of Time
“There is always an element of unreality, perhaps even of slight absurdity, about someone you love.”
Anthony Powell
A Dance to the Music of Time
“This ideal conception, that one should have an aim in life had, indeed, only too often occurred to me as an unsolved problem; but I was still far from deciding what form my endeavours should ultimately take.”
Anthony Powell
A Dance to the Music of Time
“Wisdom is the power to admit that you cannot understand and judge the people in their entirety.”
Anthony Powell
A Dance to the Music of Time
