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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

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

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

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

... 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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