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“His own relations with the opposite sex took an exclusively commercial form.
‘I’ve never had a free poke in my life,’ he said. ‘Subject doesn’t seem to arise when you’re talking to a respectable woman.”
― Anthony Powell, The Military Philosophers

tags: humor, relationships

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“In books, you love somebody and want them, win them or lose them. In real life, so often, you love them and don’t want them, or want them and don’t love them.”
― Anthony Powell, The Kindly Ones

tags: love

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“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. The biographer, even at his highest and best, can be only tentative, empirical.”
― Anthony Powell, Hearing Secret Harmonies

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“Has any writer ever told the truth about women?’ he had asked. . . .
‘Possibly. Nor about men either, if it comes to that.”
― Anthony Powell, The Acceptance World

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“In its vulgar way, a painstaking piece of work, although one must always remember—something often forgotten today—that because things are generally known, they are not necessarily the better for being written down, or publicly announced. Some are, some aren't. As in everything else, good sense, taste, art, all have their place. Saying you prefer to disregard art, taste, good sense, does not mean that those elements do not exist—it merely means you lack them yourself”
― Anthony Powell, Hearing Secret Harmonies

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