"I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed on only to those who possess them already."

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Source : Anthony Powell (2010). “The Valley of Bones: Book 7 of A Dance to the Music of Time”, p.221, University of Chicago Press

Anthony Powell

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“That's a hard one because right now it seems that all I'm watching is Teletoons and Nickelodeon. You know what I love? I love Criminal Minds. I love CSI. Those are my kind of shows. I also love Modern Family...MasterChef, I'm huge into that. I'm a big Gordon Ramsay fan...I don't get a whole lot of time to watch anything but, if I can, those are some of the ones that I do tend to watch.”
“Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the early days of testing nuclear bombs, that Russia and America happened to test a nuclear bomb at the same moment at different ends of the earth.”
“Unconsciously, I fell in love with the small round sphere, with its amusing and capricious rebounds which sometimes play with me.”
“Mexico is divided over the results of its presidential election. The U.S.had offered to send in a task force to help determine the outcome, but unfortunately the Supreme Court is currently not in session.”
“In free countries, every man is entitled to express his opinions and every other man is entitled not to listen.”
“Every wall is a door.”
“If it's not scheduled, it's not real.”
“I have started down the avenue of death and depression of a new kind of flatmate.”

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