Anthony Powell citáty

„I get a warm feeling among my books.“

—  Anthony Powell

„Books do furnish a room.“

—  Anthony Powell

Zdroj: Dance to the Music of Time

„Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.“

—  Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time

Temporary Kings (1973), ch. 1.
A Dance to the Music of Time (1951-1975)
Varianta: Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

„It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.“

—  Anthony Powell

„I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that 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, kniha The Valley of Bones

Zdroj: The Valley of Bones

„He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful.“

—  Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time

The Acceptance World (1955), ch. 1.
A Dance to the Music of Time (1951-1975)

„[T]here is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.“

—  Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time

At Lady Molly's (1957), ch. 1.
A Dance to the Music of Time (1951-1975)

„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, A Dance to the Music of Time

Hearing Secret Harmonies (1975), ch. 3.
A Dance to the Music of Time (1951-1975)

„The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd – one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like – one writes novels about it.“

—  Anthony Powell

The Times, May 15, 1986.

„Parents – especially step-parents – are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fufill the promise of their early years.“

—  Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time

A Buyer's Market (1952), ch. 2.
A Dance to the Music of Time (1951-1975)

„Self-love seems so often unrequited.“

—  Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time

The Acceptance World (1955), ch. 1.
A Dance to the Music of Time (1951-1975)