"Freud was just a novelist." — Peter Ackroyd
"Freud was just a novelist."
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67 Quotes by Peter Ackroyd
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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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Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not…
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There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who…
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Freud taught us that it wasn't God that imposed judgment on us and made us feel guilty when we stepped…
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Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and…
— Tony Campolo
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Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for…
— Tony Campolo
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I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is…
— Marina Abramovic
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Freud: If it's not one thing, it's your mother
— Robin Williams
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A negotiator should observe everything. You must be part Sherlock Holmes, part Sigmund Freud.
— Victor Kiam
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Freud expressed the opinion-not quite in earnest, though, it seeemed to me-that philosophy was the most decent form of sublimation…
— Unknown Author
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Freud becomes one of the dramatis personae, in fact, as discoverer of the great and beautiful modern myth of psychoanalysis.…
— D. M. Thomas
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Darwin's theory of evolution is the last of the great nineteenth-century mystery religions. And as we speak it is now…
— David Berlinski
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I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism…
— Ernest Hemingway
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