"I detest self-regard. If my work has taught……" — Peter Ackroyd
"I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical."
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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.
- I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose…
- I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.
- I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and…
- Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work…
- The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.
- Bigotry does not consort easily with free trade.
- Under the force of the imagination, nature itself is changed.
- It is strange, is it not, how a person can adore one's soul so much that they adore one's body…
- London goes beyond any boundary or convention.It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ever made,…
- Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just…
- No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave…
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