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Destruction is like a snow-ball rolled down a Hill, for its Bulk encreases by its own swiftness and thus Disorder spreads.
— Peter Ackroyd
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
Suffering is intrinsic to human existence. There is no joy without its attendant pain.
— Peter Ackroyd
I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.
— Peter Ackroyd
Yet the stomach for war breeds an appetite for money.
— Peter Ackroyd
... sorrow was always the bedfellow of depravity.
— Peter Ackroyd
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
Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.
— Peter Ackroyd
Is it possible to be nostalgic about old fears?
— Peter Ackroyd
The world is a sea in which we all must surely drown.
— Peter Ackroyd
I am in the Pitte, but I have gone so deep that I can see the brightness of the Starres at Noon.
— Peter Ackroyd
Never be curious. It is the path to perdition.
— Peter Ackroyd
The endless chatter of this journey had wearied me.
— Peter Ackroyd
It is the nature of humankind to idealize, to indulge in excessive praise as well as unjust condemnation.
— Peter Ackroyd
The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.
— Peter Ackroyd
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
I am the scourge of God
— Peter Ackroyd
Under the force of the imagination, nature itself is changed.
— Peter Ackroyd
As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.
— Peter Ackroyd
He had been living in the dark world of his anxieties, and no infliction of reality could seem more terrible than that
— Peter Ackroyd
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
... a lie, once uttered, changes reality just as surely as if it were a great truth.
— Peter Ackroyd
London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.
— Peter Ackroyd
Yet, like the sea and the gallows, London refuses nobody.
— Peter Ackroyd
The best years are when you know what you're doing.
— Peter Ackroyd
There are certain people who seem doomed to buy certain houses. The house expects them. It waits for them.
— Peter Ackroyd
Insecurity of the spirit demands completeness elsewhere.
— Peter Ackroyd
Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.
— Peter Ackroyd
I would have no need for the Memory Of Things past if those which were Present were more agreeable
— Peter Ackroyd
London is a labyrinth, half of stone and half of flesh.
— Peter Ackroyd
The gateway to the underworld is seen as part antiquity and part theatre. Welcome to the lower depths.
— Peter Ackroyd
Let Stone be your God and you will find God in the Stone.
— Peter Ackroyd
It is a dreadfull thing to look down Praecipices.
— Peter Ackroyd
Freud was just a novelist.
— Peter Ackroyd
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
I believe that the gods themselves are frightened of the world which they have fashioned.
— Peter Ackroyd
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
I strike up conversations all the time and it is very interesting, finding out about things I know nothing about.
— Peter Ackroyd
Lord, decked with jewels, sitting at the head of a table. It is a poetry of assonance
— Peter Ackroyd
Bigotry does not consort easily with free trade.
— Peter Ackroyd
I never read in bed, only in my study.
— Peter Ackroyd
The Gulphe in which truth lies is bottomless and it will wash over whatever is thrown into it.
— Peter Ackroyd
The credulity of crowds is never-ending.
— Peter Ackroyd
Women, of their nature, crave for liberty; they will not be ordered around like servants.
— Peter Ackroyd
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
A woman is a deep Ditch, said he, her House inclines to Death and her Paths unto the Devil
— Peter Ackroyd
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
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
I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical.
— Peter Ackroyd
I lack the World, for I move like a Ghost through it.
— Peter Ackroyd
I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.
— Peter Ackroyd
Glass is material sea.
— Peter Ackroyd
To be insular is to be independent. But it is also to be alone.
— Peter Ackroyd
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
People are much more interesting than people realise.
— Peter Ackroyd
