Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime… - Anthony Powell

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Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

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Anthony Dymoke Powell CH CBE (21 December 1905 – 28 March 2000) was one of the most respected English novelists of his time. He is probably best known for his twelve-volume novel sequence A Dance to the Music of Time.

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