Citas de Peter Ackroyd

• And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside a book and never come out again? I loved reading so much I wanted to be a part of it, and there were some books I could have stayed in for ever.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Book, Reading, Young

  Peter Ackroyd (1996). “First Light”, p.50, Grove Press

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• Londres va más allá de cualquier frontera o convención, contiene cada deseo o palabra jamás pronunciada, cada acción o gesto jamás realizado, cada declaración dura o noble jamás expresada. Es ilimitable. Es el Londres infinito.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Wish, Noble, Gestures

  "London: The Biography". Book by Peter Ackroyd, 2000.

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• 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 change.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Spirit, Action, Consciousness

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• Hay una palabra en inglés antiguo que pertenece por completo a esa civilización: "dusttsceawung", que significa contemplación del polvo. Es una imagen fiel de la mente anglosajona, o al menos un eco de aquella conciencia que consideraba la transciencia y la pérdida como parte del estado humano; era un mundo en el que la vida era incierta y la principal divinidad era el destino o "wyrd".

  Peter Ackroyd

  Fate, Loss, Destiny

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• 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 money as I can. It's a defense. I don't enjoy it or do anything with it.

  Peter Ackroyd

  People, Trying, Defense

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• The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Ordinary, Historian, Whole

  Peter Ackroyd (2011). “Foundation: The History of England”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

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• I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Believe, Past, Don't Believe

  "Tales of the city" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2003.

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• Only those with great ambitions know what great fears drive them forward.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Ambition, Knows, Great Ambition

  "The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde". Book by Peter Ackroyd, 1983.

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• The world is a sea in which we all must surely drown.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Sea, World

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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.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Book, Smell, Light

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• 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 really only with other people that we become Irishmen.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Home, Land, People

  "The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde". Book by Peter Ackroyd, 1983.

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• Under the force of the imagination, nature itself is changed.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Imagination, Force, Changed

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• You don't have to be brought up in a grand house to have a sense of the past, and I truly believe that there are certain people to whom or through whom the territory - the place, the past - speaks.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Creer, Pasado, Gente

  Peter Ackroyd (2001). “The Collection”, Random House Uk Limited

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• To be a writer was always my greatest aim. I remember writing a play about Guy Fawkes when I was 10. I suppose it's significant, at least to me, that my first work should be about a historical figure.

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  Writing, Play, Guy

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• The embrace of present and past time, in which English antiquarianism becomes a form of alchemy, engenders a strange timelessness. It is as if the little bird which flew through the Anglo-Saxon banqueting hall, in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, gained the outer air and became the lark ascending in Vaughan Williams's orchestral setting. The unbroken chain is that of English music itself.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Past, Air, Bird

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• Puede parecer anticuado decirlo, pero los historiadores deben cautivar tanto la imaginación como el intelecto. La Historia es, en cierto sentido, una historia, una narración de aventuras y de visiones, de personajes y de incidentes. También es un retrato del gran drama general del espíritu humano.

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  Drama, Adventure, Character

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• 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

  Past, Needs, Looks

  1992 English Music, ch.19.

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• Is it possible to be nostalgic about old fears?

  Peter Ackroyd

  Nostálgico

  1992 English Music, ch.1.

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• Los disturbios siempre han sido una tradición en Londres. Lo ha sido desde principios de la Edad Media. Apenas hay una racha de años que pase sin que se produzcan disturbios violentos de un tipo u otro. Ocurren con tanta frecuencia que casi forman parte de la textura de Londres.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Years, Age, Texture

  "Peter Ackroyd: 'Rioting has been a London tradition for centuries'". The Monday Interview with Andy McSmith, www.independent.co.uk. August 21, 2011.

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• 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.

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  Kings, Understanding, Watches

  Peter Ackroyd (2005). “Shakespeare: The Biography”, Vintage

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• The best years are when you know what you're doing.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Years, Best Year, Knows

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• Freud was just a novelist.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Novelistas

  "The Big Life" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2005.

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• People are much more interesting than people realise.

  Peter Ackroyd

  People, Interesting, Realising

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• In so far as I have any beliefs, I suppose I'm like that old Peggy Lee song, 'Is That All There Is?' I want to believe there's something else going on, but what that something else is I don't pretend to know.

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  Song, Believe, Want

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• London is a labyrinth, half of stone and half of flesh.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Labyrinth, Half, Flesh

  Peter Ackroyd (2000). “London: The Biography”, Doubleday

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