16 ordspråk av Anthony Powell

Anthony Powell

Anthony Powell

Anthony Powell föddes den 21 december 1905 och dog den 28 marts 2000 - English writer
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At blive gammel er som at blive beskyldt for en forbrydelse, man aldrig har begået.

Att bli gammal är som att bli beskylld för ett brott man aldrig har begått.

Bøger møblerer ikke et værelse.

Böcker möblerar inte ett rum.

Å bli gammel er som å bli stadig hardere straffet for en forbrytelse du ikke har begått.

Att bli gammal är som att bli allt hårdare beskylld för ett brott som man aldrig begått.

Alder - ung og gammel

Books do furnish a room.

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.

Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson mechanism, dually controlled by them and lumbering gloomily down vistas of triteness. With a sort of heavy-fisted dexterity the mutually adapted emotions of each of them became synchronized, until the unavoidable anti-climax was at hand.

Dinner at the Huntercombes possessed only two dramatic features: the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

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

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

Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson mechanism, dually controlled by them and lumbering gloomily down vistas of triteness. With a sort of heavy-fisted dexterity the mutually adapted emotions of each of them became synchronized, until the unavoidable anti-climax was at hand.

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.

An immediate, overpowering, almost mystic sense of relief took shape within me. I felt suddenly sure everything was going to be all right. This was something quite apart from even the most cursory reflection upon strategic implications involved.

[His wife shuddered thinking of the terrifying tide of corpses floating in the flood.] I couldn't go back to that, ... Some of them could be my family.

We will never forget what he did for us.

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