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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
“Do you think love flourishes at Stourwater?’
‘I don’t know,’ said Moreland. ‘Love means such different things to different people.”
Anthony Powell, The Kindly Ones

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
“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

Anthony  Powell
“Later that night mutual approval took physical expression.”
Anthony Powell, Temporary Kings

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