Peter Ackroyd

I don't know if I have a voice of my own. I don't see me being an important person with something to say. I haven't. I've got nothing to say. My opinion is of no consequence or value.

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These are some quotes by British author Peter Ackroyd Author, who was born on October 5, 1949.

Quotes by Peter Ackroyd

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.

Peter Ackroyd

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The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.

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His head was boiled, impaled upon a pole and raised above London Bridge. So ended the life of Thomas More, one of the few Londoners upon whom sainthood has been conferred and the first English layman to be beatified as a martyr.

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