Today is the birthday of Anthony Dymoke Powell (December 21, 1905 – March 28, 2000), novelist. He is best known for his twelve-volume work A Dance to the Music of Time, published between 1951 and 1975."Books do furnish a room."
- Anthony Powell
"People think because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Because a novel's invented, it is true. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they can't include every conceivable.. circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that. The novelist himself lays it down. His decision is binding."
- Anthony Powell
"Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed on only to those who possess them already."
- Anthony Powell
"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
"It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them."
- Anthony Powell
" Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed."
- Anthony Powell
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