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Great Quotes by Peter Ackroyd
- I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my…
- It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story,…
- 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…
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