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Anthony Powell

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Total quotes: 2

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Anthony Powell

Birthname

AKA: Anthony Powell

Birthday: December 21, 1905

Death: March 28, 2000

Educated At: Eton College, Balliol College

Nationality: United Kingdom

Occupations: Diarist, Literary Critic, Novelist, Writer

Spouse: Violet Powell

Total quotes: 2

“Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed.”

— Anthony Powell, Temporary Kings

Tagged: Getting Old, Getting Older, Age, Aging, Old People, Losing Youth, Old Age Is A Crime, Old

“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, Hearing Secret Harmonies

Tagged: Reality Hunger, Fiction Is Non-Fiction

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