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Been Quotes by Peter Ackroyd
- What captivity has been to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish. For us, the romance of our native land begins only after we…
- The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.
- I have always believed that the material world is governed by nonmaterial sources, so that in that sense 'English Music' is an exercise in the…
- My great fear has always been complete and utter failure. Hence, you see, all the dispossessed people in my fiction, and why I try to…
- None of my books has been ever in my head; after they're finished, they go. It's like being a sort of medium; you just grab…
- Rioting has always been a London tradition. It has been since the early Middle Ages. There's hardly a spate of years that goes by without…
- The 16th-century theatre witnessed the particularly English manifestation of 'the history play.' There can be no doubt that Shakespeare's presentations of 'Henry V' and 'Richard…
- Thomas More's birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum Britanniae';…
- His head was boiled, impaled upon a pole and raised above London Bridge. So ended the life of Thomas More, one of the few Londoners…
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