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Anthony Dymoke Powell (December 21, 1905 - March 28, 2000) is a writer most remembered for his A Dance to the Music of Time duodecalogy published between 1951 and 1975. According to his memoirs, Powell rhymes with Lowell (not towel). · Can we improve this biography or this incorrect? Post your own bio in the forums. Explore books and films about Powell, Anthony.

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

Powell, Anthony on Age and Aging
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"Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years."

Powell, Anthony on Parents and Parenting
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"Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on."

Powell, Anthony on Portraits
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"Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson mechanism, dually controlled by them and lumbering gloomily down vistas of triteness. With a sort of heavy-fisted dexterity the mutually adapted emotions of each of them became synchronized, until the unavoidable anti-climax was at hand."

Powell, Anthony on Seduction
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"Self-love seems so often unrequited."

Powell, Anthony on Self-love
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