Anthony Powell Quotes
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People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that.
Anthony Powell
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Author Details:
Type:
Novelist Quotes
Category:
British Novelist Quotes
Date of Birth:
December 21, 1905
Date of Death:
March 28, 2000
Nationality:
British
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Related Authors:
Roald Dahl
Charlotte Bronte
Jeanette Winterson
Mary Wesley
Bernard Cornwell
Hector Hugh Munro
Anne Perry
George Gissing
Tom Holt
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All Anthony Powell Quotations:
Books do furnish a room.
Few persons who have ever sat...
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He fell in love with himself...
Parents - especially step-parents - are sometimes...
Parents are sometimes a bit of...
People think that because a novel's...
Self-love seems so often unrequited.
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