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Anthony  Powell
“Daydreams of wealth or women must have given Carolo that faraway look which never left him; sad and silent, he contemplated huge bank balances and voluptuous revels.”
Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: 2nd Movement

Anthony  Powell
“What a shabby lot of highbrows have turned out tonight," he said, when he saw us. "It makes me ashamed to be one.”
Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: 2nd Movement

Anthony  Powell
“We took a bus to Victoria, then passed on foot into a vast, desolate region of stucco streets and squares upon which a doom seemed to have fallen. The gloom was cosmic.”
Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: 2nd Movement

Anthony  Powell
“I always think one ought to be grateful to an author if one has liked even a small bit of a book.”
Anthony Powell, Casanova's Chinese Restaurant

Anthony  Powell
“However much one hears about individuals, the picture formed in the mind rarely approximates to the reality. So it was with Mrs Maclintick. I was not prepared for her in the flesh. When she opened the door to us, her formidable discontent with life swept across the threshold in scorching, blasting waves.”
Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: 2nd Movement

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