Anthony Powell - A Buyer's Market (1952)

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Parents—especially step-parents—are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

Anthony Powell

Parents – especially step-parents – are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fufill the promise of their early years.

Anthony Powell

For reasons not always at the time explicable, there are specific occasions when events begin suddenly to take on a significance previously unsuspected, so that, before we really know where we are, life seems to have begun in earnest at last, and we ourselves, scarcely aware that any change has taken place, are careering uncontrollably down the slippery avenues of eternity.

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