Self-love seems so often unrequited.- Anthony Powell
People think that because a novel's invented, it is not 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.
Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They do not fulfill the promise of their early years.
Parents - especially step-parents - are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They do not fulfill the promise of their early years.
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.
Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.
Books do furnish a room.
