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Peter Ackroyd quotes: Destruction is like a snow-ball rolled down a Hill, for its Bulk encreases by its own swiftness and thus Disorder spreads.

Destruction is like a snow-ball rolled down a Hill, for its Bulk encreases by its own swiftness and thus Disorder spreads.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: I was at peace with a world which afforded so much bounty, and began to enjoy living at the very end of time.

I was at peace with a world which afforded so much bounty, and began to enjoy living at the very end of time.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: Suffering is intrinsic to human existence. There is no joy without its attendant pain.

Suffering is intrinsic to human existence. There is no joy without its attendant pain.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one's own bad lines.

One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one's own bad lines.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.

I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: Yet the stomach for war breeds an appetite for money.

Yet the stomach for war breeds an appetite for money.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: ... sorrow was always the bedfellow of depravity.

... sorrow was always the bedfellow of depravity.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: To watch King Lear is to approach the recognition that there is indeed no meaning in life, and that there are limits to human understanding.

To watch King Lear is to approach the recognition that there is indeed no meaning in life, and that there are limits to human understanding.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.

Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: Is it possible to be nostalgic about old fears?

Is it possible to be nostalgic about old fears?

Peter Ackroyd quotes: The world is a sea in which we all must surely drown.

The world is a sea in which we all must surely drown.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: I am in the Pitte, but I have gone so deep that I can see the brightness of the Starres at Noon.

I am in the Pitte, but I have gone so deep that I can see the brightness of the Starres at Noon.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: Never be curious. It is the path to perdition.

Never be curious. It is the path to perdition.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: The endless chatter of this journey had wearied me.

The endless chatter of this journey had wearied me.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: Sometimes the silences, the gaps, tell us more than anything else.

Sometimes the silences, the gaps, tell us more than
anything else.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: It is the nature of humankind to idealize, to indulge in excessive praise as well as unjust condemnation.

It is the nature of humankind to idealize, to indulge in excessive praise as well as unjust condemnation.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.

The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: So we may use our books to form a barricade against the world,interweaving their words with our own to ward off the heat of the day.

So we may use our books to form a barricade against the world,
interweaving their words with our own to ward off the heat of the day.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: I am the scourge of God

I am the scourge of God

Peter Ackroyd quotes: Under the force of the imagination, nature itself is changed.

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

Peter Ackroyd quotes: As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.

As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: He had been living in the dark world of his anxieties, and no infliction of reality could seem more terrible than that

He had been living in the dark world of his anxieties, and no infliction of reality could seem more terrible than that

Peter Ackroyd quotes: I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.

I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: Yes, I have inherited the past because I have acknowledged it at last? And, now that I have come to understand it, I no longer need to look back.

Yes, I have inherited the past because I have acknowledged it at last? And, now that I have come to understand it, I no longer need to look back.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: ... a lie, once uttered, changes reality just as surely as if it were a great truth.

... a lie, once uttered, changes reality just as surely as if it were a great truth.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.

London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: Yet, like the sea and the gallows, London refuses nobody.

Yet, like the sea and the gallows, London refuses nobody.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: The best years are when you know what you're doing.

The best years are when you know what you're doing.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: There are certain people who seem doomed to buy certain houses. The house expects them. It waits for them.

There are certain people who seem doomed to buy certain houses. The house expects them. It waits for them.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: Insecurity of the spirit demands completeness elsewhere.

Insecurity of the spirit demands completeness elsewhere.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: What is the sweetness of flowers compared to the savour of dust and confinement?

What is the sweetness of flowers compared to the savour of dust and confinement?

Peter Ackroyd quotes: There was no grandeur here, no sublimity, only weariness and gloom.

There was no grandeur here, no sublimity, only weariness and gloom.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.

Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: I would have no need for the Memory Of Things past if those which were Present were more agreeable

I would have no need for the Memory Of Things past if those which were Present were more agreeable

Peter Ackroyd quotes: London is a labyrinth, half of stone and half of flesh.

London is a labyrinth, half of stone and half of flesh.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: There is nothing in England more constant than the inconstancy of dress.

There is nothing in England more constant than the inconstancy of dress.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: The gateway to the underworld is seen as part antiquity and part theatre. Welcome to the lower depths.

The gateway to the underworld is seen as part antiquity and part theatre. Welcome to the lower depths.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: Let Stone be your God and you will find God in the Stone.

Let Stone be your God and you will find God in the Stone.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.

The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: It is a dreadfull thing to look down Praecipices.

It is a dreadfull thing to look down Praecipices.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: Freud was just a novelist.

Freud was just a novelist.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: So do we discover, in the world, that our worst fears are unfulfilled; yet we must fear, in order that we may feel delight.

So do we discover, in the world, that our worst fears are
unfulfilled; yet we must fear, in order that we may feel delight.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: I believe that the gods themselves are frightened of the world which they have fashioned.

I believe that the gods themselves are frightened of the world which they have fashioned.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: If I did only one thing at a time I'd think I was wasting my time. If, for example, I only wrote novels I would feel like a charlatan and

If I did only one thing at a time I'd think I was wasting my time. If, for example, I only wrote novels I would feel like a charlatan and a fraud.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: He found it difficult to discuss any of his activities, which seemed to him no more than the hole through which he was falling.

He found it difficult to discuss any of his activities, which seemed to him no more than the hole through which he was falling.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: I strike up conversations all the time and it is very interesting, finding out about things I know nothing about.

I strike up conversations all the time and it is very interesting, finding out about things I know nothing about.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: Lord, decked with jewels, sitting at the head of a table. It is a poetry of assonance

Lord, decked with jewels, sitting at the head of a table. It is a poetry of assonance

Peter Ackroyd quotes: For who can speak of the Mazes of the Serpent to those who are not lost in them?

For who can speak of the Mazes of the Serpent to those who are not lost in them?

Peter Ackroyd quotes: Well,' said Hawksmoor. 'It's a theory and a theory can do no harm.

Well,' said Hawksmoor. 'It's a theory and a theory can do no harm.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: Bigotry does not consort easily with free trade.

Bigotry does not consort easily with free trade.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: I never read in bed, only in my study.

I never read in bed, only in my study.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: The Gulphe in which truth lies is bottomless and it will wash over whatever is thrown into it.

The Gulphe in which truth lies is bottomless and it will wash over whatever is thrown into it.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: The credulity of crowds is never-ending.

The credulity of crowds is never-ending.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my Cockney accent.

I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my Cockney accent.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: Women, of their nature, crave for liberty; they will not be ordered around like servants.

Women, of their nature, crave for liberty; they will not be ordered around like servants.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: I don't in any sense think of myself as a celebrity, which of course I'm not.

I don't in any sense think of myself as a celebrity, which of course I'm not.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: Are we for ever to be twisting and untwisting the same rope? For ever in the same track - for ever at the same pace?

Are we for ever to be twisting and untwisting the same rope?
For ever in the same track - for ever at the same pace?

Peter Ackroyd quotes: A woman is a deep Ditch, said he, her House inclines to Death and her Paths unto the Devil

A woman is a deep Ditch, said he, her House inclines to Death and her Paths unto the Devil

Peter Ackroyd quotes: It is characteristic of Dickens who, when he grasps the wrong end of the stick, never fails to belabour everyone in sight with it.

It is characteristic of Dickens who, when he grasps the wrong end of the stick, never fails to belabour everyone in sight with it.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: I saw a ghost once, about 20 years ago. It took the form of someone coming out of a sleeping body and sitting at the foot of the bed.

I saw a ghost once, about 20 years ago. It took the form of someone coming out of a sleeping body and sitting at the foot of the bed.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical.

I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: I lack the World, for I move like a Ghost through it.

I lack the World, for I move like a Ghost through it.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.

I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: Glass is material sea.

Glass is material sea.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: To be insular is to be independent. But it is also to be alone.

To be insular is to be independent. But it is also to be alone.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: It is strange, is it not, how a person can adore one's soul so much that they adore one's body also?

It is strange, is it not, how a person can adore one's soul so much that they adore one's body also?

Peter Ackroyd quotes: People are much more interesting than people realise.

People are much more interesting than people realise.

Peter Ackroyd quotes: Only those with great ambitions know what great fears drive them forward.

Only those with great ambitions know what great fears drive them forward.