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"A Dance to the Music of Time" Quotes
"A Dance to the Music of Time" by Anthony Powell is a twelve-volume series that chronicles the lives, relationships, and social dynamics of a group of characters in 20th-century England.
Quotes
The secret of success is to do all you can do without thought of success.
Life is full of internal dramas, instantaneous and narrative.
People think because a novel’s invented, it isn’t true.
The past is the present, isn't it? It's the future too.
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
A sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.
Life is a dance to the music of time.
It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.
Books do furnish a room.
People seek a magic formula, a cure for the inevitable passage of time.