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The great advantage of really contemporary fiction is that one finds oneself mirror on every pagePeter Ackroyd
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The great advantage of really contemporary fiction is that one finds oneself mirrored on every pagePeter Ackroyd
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One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one's own bad lines.Peter Ackroyd
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Some drink to forget, I drink to remember. I drink in order to understand what I mean and to discover what I know. Under its benign influence all the stories and dramas which properly belong to the sphere of art are announced by me in conversation.Peter Ackroyd
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Absinthe removes the bitter taste of failure and grants me strange visions which are charming principally because they cannot be written down. Only in absinthe do I become entirely free and, when I drink it, I understand the symbolic mysteries of odour and of colour.Peter Ackroyd
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But just as my philosophy had ceased to interest me as soon as it was formulated into a set of principles so, when I saw myself being imitated, I realised at once what an incubus my aesthetic personality might become if I were to be trapped within it. Imitation changes, not the impersonator, but the impersonated.Peter Ackroyd