Quotes by Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement

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In the break-up of a marriage the world inclines to take the side of the partner with most vitality, rather than the one — Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement
...in those days children were rather out of fashion. — Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement
Speaking about time’s relentless passage, Powell’s narrator compares certain stages of experience to the game of Russian — Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement
There is always a real and an imaginary person you are in love with; sometimes you love one best, sometimes the other. — Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement
He [Widmerpool] moistened his lips, though scarcely perceptibly. I thought his mixture of secretiveness and curiosity qu — Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement
There is a strong disposition in youth, from which some individuals never escape, to suppose that everyone else is havin — Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement
Later in life, I learnt that many things one may require have to be weighed against one's dignity, which can be an insup — Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement
Anyway, what can one do here? I am seriously thinking of running away and joining the Foreign Legion or the North-West M — Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement