"And the smell of the library was always……" — Peter Ackroyd
"And the smell of the library was always the same - the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies, creating what the chief librarian had once described as 'the steam of the social soup.'"
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Peter Ackroyd
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67 Quotes by Peter Ackroyd
Peter Ackroyd has 67 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work…
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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…
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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,…
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Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just…
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No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave…
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
— Aristotle
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
— John James Audubon
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All…
— Saint Augustine
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If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than…
— Richard Bach
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Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies.
— Tyra Banks
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All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame…
— George Berkeley
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The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
— Mortimer Adler
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The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and…
— Annie Besant
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When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell…
— Jim Bishop
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On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off…
— Erma Bombeck
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Female artists are the perfect example of a creator: They know how to make life and art with their bodies.…
— Brandon Boyd
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