It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them. - Anthony Powell - Quotesmemo.com

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[Jazz musicians ] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing.

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Anthony Powell

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

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[T]here is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.

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Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.

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I get a warm feeling among my books.

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Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.

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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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