Peter Ackroyd Quotes about Past

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I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.

I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.

Believe, Past, Don't Believe

"Tales of the city" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2003.

You don't have to be brought up in a grand house to have a sense of the past, and I truly believe that there are certain people to whom or through whom the territory - the place, the past - speaks.

Peter Ackroyd

Believe, Past, People

Peter Ackroyd (2001). “The Collection”, Random House Uk Limited

The embrace of present and past time, in which English antiquarianism becomes a form of alchemy, engenders a strange timelessness. It is as if the little bird which flew through the Anglo-Saxon banqueting hall, in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, gained the outer air and became the lark ascending in Vaughan Williams's orchestral setting. The unbroken chain is that of English music itself.

Peter Ackroyd

Past, Air, Bird

Yes, I have inherited the past because I have acknowledged it at last? And, now that I have come to understand it, I no longer need to look back.

Peter Ackroyd

Past, Needs, Looks

1992 English Music, ch.19.

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.

Peter Ackroyd

Character, Past, News

In 'The Plato Papers' I wanted to get another perspective on the present moment by extrapolating into the distant future. So in that sense, there's a definite similarity of purpose between a book set in the future and a book set in the past.

Peter Ackroyd

Plato, Book, Past

Peter Ackroyd Quotes about Past

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