6 Quotes & Sayings By David Peace

David Peace is a British writer and journalist, who has been a prolific writer since the 1980s. He has written several novels, among them Peeling the Onion, which was adapted for cinema by Anand Tucker, exposing the inner workings of the British police force. In 2003 he received a Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Special Achievement award.

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My father used to say, 'If you want to know the artist, look at the art'. He was usually talking about Stanley Matthews or Don Bradman when he said it. David Peace
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And I didn't think you believed in god or a heaven.'' Having been here thirty-four days, ' I tell him, 'I've changed my mind, Sydney.''Why's that then?' he smiles.' Well, if there's a hell like this place, then there has to be heaven somewhere. David Peace
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Age does not count. It’s what you know about football that matters. David Peace
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How you harangue referees. How you fall over when you've not been touched. How you make a meal out of every tackle to try and get the other player booked. How you protest when you have nothing to fucking protest about — David Peace
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He once told me, Instead of scoring thirty goals a season, why don't you score twenty-five and help someone else to score fifteen? That way the team's ten goals better off. David Peace