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Peter Ackroyd has 67 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.
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I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last…
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I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.
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I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives…
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Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its…
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The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.
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Bigotry does not consort easily with free trade.
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Under the force of the imagination, nature itself is changed.
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It is strange, is it not, how a person can adore one's soul so much that they adore one's body also?
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London goes beyond any boundary or convention.It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ever made, every harsh…
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Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just after. But…
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No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave in which…
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The only politician ever to have entered parliament with honourable intentions, was Guy Fawkes.
— Terry Deary
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To be a writer was always my greatest aim. I remember writing a play about Guy Fawkes when I was 10. I…
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He accused me of being Dumbledore's man through and through." "How very rude of him." "I told him I was." Dumbledore opened…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Remember, remember the Fifth of November, The Gunpowder Treason and Plot, I know of no reason Why the gunpowder treason Should ever…
— Alan Moore
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Fawkes is a phoenix, Harry. Phoenixes burst into flame when it is time for them to die and are reborn from the…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I follow blogs, particularly all the main political ones - Guido Fawkes, Iain Dale, Coffee House, Paul Waugh, Iain Martin in the…
— Ben Schott
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In Britain, the major public holiday used to be Guy Fawkes Day... that was celebrated on November 5th with things like bonfires…
— Lisa Morton
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Part of the plot was a knock that V wanted to bring down the government and bring chaos. I don't know why…
— David Lloyd
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