Anthony Powell — British Novelist born on December 21, 1905, died on March 28, 2000

Anthony Dymoke Powell, CH, CBE was an English novelist best known for his twelve-volume work A Dance to the Music of Time, published between 1951 and 1975... (wikipedia)

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't 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.
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.