"London goes beyond any boundary or convention.It contains……" — Peter Ackroyd
"London goes beyond any boundary or convention.It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ever made, every harsh or noble statement ever expressed. It is illimitable. It is Infinite London."
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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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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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What captivity has been to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish. For us, the romance of our native…
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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