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Peter Ackroyd

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Peter Ackroyd Quotes

Total quotes: 3

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Peter Ackroyd

Birthname

Birthday: October 5, 1949

Educated At: Clare College

Nationality: United Kingdom

Occupations: Literary Historian, Historian, Playwright, Literary Critic, Novelist

Total quotes: 3

“To do? I don’t want to do anything. I want to be everything.”

— Peter Ackroyd, The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde

Tagged: To Do, Doing, wanting to be everything, Want, self, Experience, Life, Inspirational

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

— Peter Ackroyd, First Light

Tagged: Silence, Gaps

“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, First Light

Tagged: Book Lover, Literature

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