It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance … - Peter Ackroyd

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It's not subtle or restrained. It's not any of the things you like to think apply to your acting.

Peter Ackroyd

It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences - there's no real pattern.

Confusion, Course, English, English History, Pattern, Real

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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.

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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 statement ever expressed. It is illimitable. It is Infinite London.

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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.

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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.

Become, Home, Irish, Land, People, Romance

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.

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It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.

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It's not subtle or restrained. It's not any of the things you like to think apply to your acting.

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If you are working, almost like with layers of the Grand Canyon, there's history within those layers.

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