Author: Anthony Powell

Cited by

• Claire Messud (1)
  • IN: The Emperor's Children (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The General, speaking one felt with authority, always insisted that, if you bring off adequate preservation of your personal myth, nothing much else in life matters. It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.
    FROM: Books Do Furnish a Room, (1971), Novel, UK