"It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them."

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Source : Anthony Powell (2010). “Books Do Furnish a Room: Book 10 of A Dance to the Music of Time”, p.141, University of Chicago Press

Anthony Powell

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Significant Quotes

“Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.”
“I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.”
“You start out playing in kitchens, and you end up playing in kitchens.”
“Remember: Marriage is the number one cause of divorce”
“I like the fact that it [social media] is unfiltered. In other words it's not Geraldo of Fox News or Geraldo of WABC Radio, it's Geraldo. And you know it's raw, unedited, what I'm thinking, what I'm feeling, or, you know, some mistakes I'm making in real time. And I see that as a way to go out kicking and screaming. People will be hearing from me 'til the bitter end now.”
“The reaction to death is sometimes as violent as death itself. Shock throws a cautious coolness over your senses, but your stomach still has knots, your skin stings as if the Reaper is glaring at you as well.”

Source : Tim Lebbon (2003). “Fears Unnamed”
“It's funny; it's a real balancing act. In TV, everybody's talking about authenticity. In order to make 'Dirty Jobs' authentic, I really can't be overly informed. The minute I am, I become a host It's a very tricky business paying a tribute to work, because TV is very bad at it.”
“The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.”

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