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.'
What captivity has been to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish. For us, the romance of our native land begins only after we have left home; it is r… - Peter Ackroyd
What captivity has been to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish. For us, the romance of our native land begins only after we have left home; it is r…
- Peter Ackroyd
London goes beyond any boundary or convention.It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ever made, every harsh or noble sta… - Peter Ackroyd
London goes beyond any boundary or convention.It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ever made, every harsh or noble sta…
My great fear has always been complete and utter failure. Hence, you see, all the dispossessed people in my fiction, and why I try to earn as much mo… - Peter Ackroyd
My great fear has always been complete and utter failure. Hence, you see, all the dispossessed people in my fiction, and why I try to earn as much mo…
The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience. - Peter Ackroyd
The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.
There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive for action or c… - Peter Ackroyd
There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive for action or c…
Only those with great ambitions know what great fears drive them forward. - Peter Ackroyd
Only those with great ambitions know what great fears drive them forward.
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
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.
I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us. - Peter Ackroyd
I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.
The world is a sea in which we all must surely drown. - Peter Ackroyd
The world is a sea in which we all must surely drown.
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