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Peter Ackroyd Quote: “It might be compared to some organism which sloughs off its old skin, or texture, in order to live again. It is a city which has the ability to dance upon its own ashes.”

101. “It might be compared to some organism which sloughs off its old skin, or texture, in order to live again. It is a city which has the ability to dance upon its own ashes.”

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Peter Ackroyd Quote: “I have liv’d long enough for others, like the Dog in the Wheel, and it is now the Season to begin for myself: I cannot change that Thing call’d Time, but I can alter its Posture and, as Boys do turn a looking-glass against the Sunne, so I will dazzle you all.”

102. “I have liv’d long enough for others, like the Dog in the Wheel, and it is now the Season to begin for myself: I cannot change that Thing call’d Time, but I can alter its Posture and, as Boys do turn a looking-glass against the Sunne, so I will dazzle you all.”

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Peter Ackroyd Quote: “I don’t believe necessarily the past is in the past. It’s eternal, it’s all around us.”

103. “I don’t believe necessarily the past is in the past. It’s eternal, it’s all around us.”

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

104. “What is the sweetness of flowers compared to the savour of dust and confinement?”

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

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

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Peter Ackroyd Quote: “He saw the sunlight leave the grass like an eye suddenly closed.”

106. “He saw the sunlight leave the grass like an eye suddenly closed.”

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Peter Ackroyd Quote: “Freud was just a novelist.”

107. “Freud was just a novelist.”

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

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

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Peter Ackroyd Quote: “I don’t in any sense think of myself as a celebrity, which of course I’m not.”

109. “I don’t in any sense think of myself as a celebrity, which of course I’m not.”

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Peter Ackroyd Quote: “There are those who say further that these are meer Dreames and no true Relations, but I say back to them: look upon my Churches in the Spittle-fields, in Limehouse, and now in the Parish of Wapping Stepney, and do you not wonder why they lead you into a darker World which on Reflection you know to be your own? Every Patch of Ground by them has its Hypochondriack Distemper and Disorder; every Stone of them bears the marks of Scorching by which you may follow the true Path of God.”

110. “There are those who say further that these are meer Dreames and no true Relations, but I say back to them: look upon my Churches in the Spittle-fields, in Limehouse, and now in the Parish of Wapping Stepney, and do you not wonder why they lead you into a darker World which on Reflection you know to be your own? Every Patch of Ground by them has its Hypochondriack Distemper and Disorder; every Stone of them bears the marks of Scorching by which you may follow the true Path of God.”

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Peter Ackroyd Quote: “Health, money. That’s what people worried about in the 14th century as much as today. I find it so much more interesting than the supposed activities of kings, queens, generals.”

111. “Health, money. That’s what people worried about in the 14th century as much as today. I find it so much more interesting than the supposed activities of kings, queens, generals.”

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Peter Ackroyd Quote: “I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history, but those three elements in my life have become the most important.”

112. “I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history, but those three elements in my life have become the most important.”

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Peter Ackroyd Quote: “In the old wild days of the world there was a king of England known as Uther Pendragon; he was a dragon in wrath as well as in power.”

113. “In the old wild days of the world there was a king of England known as Uther Pendragon; he was a dragon in wrath as well as in power.”

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Peter Ackroyd Quote: “Ah,’ Arthur cried out, ‘I have never known one month of repose since I took up the crown. I have lost the key to contentment.”

114. “Ah,’ Arthur cried out, ‘I have never known one month of repose since I took up the crown. I have lost the key to contentment.”

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Peter Ackroyd Quote: “There is one person who can save you, sire.’ ‘Who is that?’ ‘Merlin. The great magician. He is the man who made the abbey church of Derby disappear into the earth. He will know how to heal you. He will find a cure.’ ‘Bring him before me. Let him work his magic on my poor bones.”

115. “There is one person who can save you, sire.’ ‘Who is that?’ ‘Merlin. The great magician. He is the man who made the abbey church of Derby disappear into the earth. He will know how to heal you. He will find a cure.’ ‘Bring him before me. Let him work his magic on my poor bones.”

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Peter Ackroyd Quote: “As a result of Malory’s plangent and often elaborate prose, the song of Arthur has never ended. Le Morte d’Arthur inspired both Milton and Dryden with dreams of Arthurian epic, and in the nineteenth century Tennyson revived the themes of Malory in Idylls of the King. William Morris wrote The Defence of Guenevere, and Algernon Swinburne composed Tristram of Liones. The Round Table was reconstituted in the libraries of nineteenth-century England.”

116. “As a result of Malory’s plangent and often elaborate prose, the song of Arthur has never ended. Le Morte d’Arthur inspired both Milton and Dryden with dreams of Arthurian epic, and in the nineteenth century Tennyson revived the themes of Malory in Idylls of the King. William Morris wrote The Defence of Guenevere, and Algernon Swinburne composed Tristram of Liones. The Round Table was reconstituted in the libraries of nineteenth-century England.”

— Peter Ackroyd

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