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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 . Wikipedia  

✵ 5. Outubro 1949
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Peter Ackroyd: Frases em inglês

“I believe that the gods themselves are frightened of the world which they have fashioned.”

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Peter Ackroyd livro The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde

Pages 128-9.
The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983)

“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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Fonte: First Light

“The smell of the library was always the same – the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies, creating what the chief librarian had once described as "the steam of the social soup."”

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Chatterton (London: Abacus, [1987] 1991), ch. 5, p. 72.

“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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London: The Biography (London: Vintage, [2000] 2001) p. 779.

“No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave in which he can kneel. And, when we read his poetry, we can join him there.”

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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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Peter Ackroyd livro The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde

Page 45.
The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983)

“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.”

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Peter Ackroyd livro The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde

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The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983)

“One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one's own bad lines.”

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Peter Ackroyd livro The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde

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The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983)

“The English can laugh and at the same time strike you down, without the least compunction. It is the secret of their success as a nation.”

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Peter Ackroyd livro The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde

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The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983)

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

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Peter Ackroyd livro The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde

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