"I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity……" — Goldwin Smith

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• Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form. — Margaret Atwood
• Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens. — Peter Ackroyd
• We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off. — Alan Bennett
• One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as… — Danny Boyle
• Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. — Michael Caine
• Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in… — Maya Angelou
• I cannot tell what the dickens his name is. — William Shakespeare
• I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene. — David McCullough
• I've been in the entertainment industry since I was six-years-old ... As Charles Dickens says, 'It's been the best of… — Michael Jackson
• Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick… — Bob Dylan
• Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is… — John Berger
• I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive. — Donna Tartt

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