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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.

- Anthony Powell

Think, Include, Memoirs, Circumstance

Books do furnish a room.

- Anthony Powell

Room, Books, Furnish

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

- Anthony Powell

Self-Love, Often, Seems, Unrequited

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.

- Anthony Powell

Love, Always, Which, Unrequited

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

- Anthony Powell

Sometimes, Promise, Fulfill, Early Years

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

- Anthony Powell

Sometimes, Promise, Fulfill, Early Years

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

- Anthony Powell

Process, Persons, Ever, Portrait

Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

- Anthony Powell

Growing, Like, Increasingly, Penalized

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