"There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you."

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Source : Anthony Powell (2010). “The Acceptance World: Book 3 of A Dance to the Music of Time”, p.130, University of Chicago Press

Anthony Powell

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“I was working all the time I was in college. I was working so much that I could hardly do my college work.”
“Don't let the workings of adversity totally absorb your life. Try to understand what you can. Act where you are able; then let the matter rest with the Lord for a period while you give to others in worthy ways before you take on appropriate concern again.”
“Snap judgments? I'd gotten over those about the time I was toilet trained. Swore off diapers and faith in the human experience all in one week.”

Source : Rob Thurman (2006). “Nightlife”, p.42, Penguin
“Remember that the military used wind-up radios for years.”
“As a kid, I had a background in theater.”
“It felt as if we'd been to war together. Deep in a jungle, alone, I had relied on them, these strangers. They'd held me up in ways only people could. When it was over, an ending never felt like an ending, only an exhausted draw, we went our separate ways. Be we were bonded forever by the history of it, the simple fact they'd seen the raw side of me and me of them, a side no one, not even closest friends or family had ever seen before, or probably ever would.”
“True poetry is born of scrutiny, Scrutiny, the son of meditation, Meditation, the son of lore, Lore, the son of inquiry, Inquiry, the son of investigation, Investigation, the son of knowledge, Knowledge, the son of understanding, Understanding, the son of wisdom, Wisdom, the son of surrender to the Divine Will Thus it is with the poet himself: his art is powerful, protecting, elevating, and his judgement straight and strong”
“What if you're practicing wrong? Then you get very good at doing something wrong.”

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