"It sometimes seems to me that the whole……" — Peter Ackroyd
"It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences - there's no real pattern."
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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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Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.
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Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing…
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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
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I had - after I sang the 'Star Spangled Banner' so badly, after my tragic singing accident, after that, you…
— Roseanne Barr
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No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at…
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What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that…
— Renata Adler
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The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They…
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There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
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U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do,…
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It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's…
— Bono
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I really discovered I had thyroid disease by accident. My son was having some health concerns, and as I filled…
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