Питер Акройд цитаты

„Идеалы - это бесенята. Пойдешь их искать, заведут в болото.“

„Лучшее образование - это самообразование.“

„Воздух - это огромная библиотека, на чьих страницах навеки записано всё, что когда-либо произнес мужчина и что когда-либо прошептала женщина.“

„Реальность выдумали люди, лишенные воображения.“

“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.”

“The world is a sea in which we all must surely drown.”

“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."”

“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.”

“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.”

“He had the satisfied countenance of a man who has never succeeded in boring himself.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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