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Which Quotes by Peter Ackroyd
- Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.
- I don't in any sense think of myself as a celebrity, which of course I'm not.
- 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.
- There are two types of people, you see. One type keep their heads straight, and look around as they walk. The others look up -…
- Thomas More rarely discussed his siblings, and two of them are never mentioned by him. It is likely that they were part of that infant…
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