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“Small, inquisitive and solitary, the only child of an only son, growing up in rented lodgings or hotel rooms, constantly on the move as a boy, Anthony Powell needed an energetic imagination to people a sadly under-populated world from a child's point of view. His mother and his nurse were for long periods the only people he saw, in general the one unchanging element in a peripatetic existence.”

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Book:Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time

Source: Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time

“It's a weirdly subtle conversation, I almost don't notice I'm being blackmailed.”

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Book:Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

Source: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

“I never thought I'd have a story worth telling, at least not one about me.”

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Book:Hero

Source: Hero

“Your Grandfather," said Vanyel's brawny 15 year-old cousin Radevel, "was Crazy.”

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Book:Magic's Pawn

Source: Magic's Pawn

“Damned Elmer's Glue! Just let me finish emasculating this eye and I'll be right with you.”

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Book:Torch Song Trilogy

Source: Torch Song Trilogy

“I was in the closet... with Tamera Muncie.”

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Book:Out of the Pocket

Source: Out of the Pocket

“I was deep behind enemy lines, in the very heart of the enemy camp.”

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Book:Geography Club

Source: Geography Club

“There was a time when I thought a great deal about the axolotls. I went to see them in the aquarium at the Jardin des Plantes and stayed for hours watching them, observing their immobility, their faint movements. Now I am an axolotl.”

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Book:Blow-Up and Other Stories

Source: Blow-Up and Other Stories

“When my cousin Anil-da started telling us what he’d heard at the market about the groom’s family, at my aunt Moina-pehi’s wedding in January 2002, his eyes shone like inky marbles reflecting sunlight.”

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Book:The House with a Thousand Stories

Source: The House with a Thousand Stories

“It started in mud, as many things do.”

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Author:Tad Williams

“Ernst was still in the Eastern Zone, about ninety kilometres from Berlin, when the truck emerged so inexplicably out of nowhere that it seemed to have been created by the rain itself.”

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Book:A Choice of Enemies

Source: A Choice of Enemies

“They murdered him.”

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Book:The Chocolate War

Source: The Chocolate War