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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
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Peter Ackroyd
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: October 5
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London is a labyrinth, half of stone and half of flesh.
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I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical.
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He stood beneath the white tower, and looked up at it with that mournful expression which his face always carried in repose: for one moment he thought of climbing up its cracked and broken stone, and then from its summit screaming down at the silent city as a child might scream at a chained animal.
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And the smell of the library was always the same - the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies, creating what the chief librarian had once described as 'the steam of the social soup.'
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I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.
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The world is a sea in which we all must surely drown.
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In 'The Plato Papers' I wanted to get another perspective on the present moment by extrapolating into the distant future. So in that sense, there's a definite similarity of purpose between a book set in the future and a book set in the past.
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Thomas More's birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum Britanniae' for a lawyer John More was remarkably inexact in his references to that natal year, and the date has been moved from 1477 to 1478 and back again.
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The best years are when you know what you're doing.
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Rioting has always been a London tradition. It has been since the early Middle Ages. There's hardly a spate of years that goes by without violent rioting of one kind or another. They happen so frequently that they are almost part of London's texture.
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Under the force of the imagination, nature itself is changed.
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Freud was just a novelist.
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London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense with chapters of the history of smells, the history of silence, and the history of light. I have described the book as a labyrinth, and in that sense in complements my description of London itself.
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I don't in any sense think of myself as a celebrity, which of course I'm not.
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There are certain people who seem doomed to buy certain houses. The house expects them. It waits for them.
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I strike up conversations all the time and it is very interesting, finding out about things I know nothing about.
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I have always believed that the material world is governed by nonmaterial sources, so that in that sense 'English Music' is an exercise in the spiritual as well as the material. I have always been attracted to the Gothic and spiritual imagination, and I've always been interested in visionaries.
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There are so many characters whizzing around inside my head, it's like Looney Tunes. But as soon as I've finished writing about them, I completely forget who they are.
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Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just after. But they can never remember the actual moment of killing. This is why they will always leave a clue.
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London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.
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