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Books do furnish a room.

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.

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.

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

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

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Anthony Powell

Self

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