"People are much more interesting than people realise." — Peter Ackroyd

"People are much more interesting than people realise."

— Peter Ackroyd

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67 Quotes by Peter Ackroyd

Peter Ackroyd has 67 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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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More Inspirational Quotes

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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth… — Pietro Aretino
Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento

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