“I believe that the gods themselves are frightened of the world which they have fashioned.”
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Peter Ackroyd é um romancista, biógrafo e crítico britânico, famoso por suas obras de ficção histórica O grande incêndio de Londres , O último testamento de Oscar Wilde e Hawskmoor , e suas biografias Ezra Pound , T.S. Eliot e Dickens .
É autor também dos romances Música inglesa e A casa do doutor Dee .
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“I believe that the gods themselves are frightened of the world which they have fashioned.”
Pages 128-9.
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Chatterton (London: Abacus, [1987] 1991), ch. 5, p. 72.
London: The Biography (London: Vintage, [2000] 2001) p. 779.
Chatterton (London: Abacus, [1987] 1991), ch. 10, p. 151.
“He had the satisfied countenance of a man who has never succeeded in boring himself.”
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“One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one's own bad lines.”
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“Only those with great ambitions know what great fears drive them forward.”
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