"Under the force of the imagination, nature itself……" — Peter Ackroyd

"Under the force of the imagination, nature itself is changed."

— 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.
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…
What captivity has been to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish. For us, the romance of our native…

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More Changed Quotes

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The values of Islam are expressed by Muslims clearly. September 11 changed the world, and put Muslims on the spotlight. — Karen Armstrong
As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed. — Bashar al-Assad
I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere… — David Attenborough
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. — Saint Augustine
Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about… — Paul Auster
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder. — Richard Bach
Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our… — James A. Baldwin
I'm amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it's changed. You go away for a month… — Bryan Adams
I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a… — Russell Banks
I need protein from food rather than just protein supplements. I changed my diet. — Travis Barker
I've been vegan since I got out of the hospital... It's another eye opener. It changed my life in a… — Travis Barker
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. — Mary Catherine Bateson

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