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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

~Anthony Powell

Topics: Often Seems Self-Love Unrequited

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Parents - especially step-parents - are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

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Topics: Bit Children Disappointment Early Early Years Fulfill Parents Promise Sometimes Years

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Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.

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He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited.

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Topics: Always Faithful Fell First He Himself Love Often Passion Remained Seems Self-Love Sight Unrequited Which

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Books do furnish a room.

~Anthony Powell

Topics: Books Furnish Room

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Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

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Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

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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

Topics: Because Biography Cannot Case Circumstance Every Exactly Happened Include Invented Memoirs Never Novel People Reverse Since Think True Wholly

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Novelist

Born: December 21st, 1905

Died: March 28th, 2000

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