I have liv'd long enough for others, like the Dog in the Wheel, and it is now the Season to begin for myself: I cannot change that Thing call'd Time, but I can alter its Posture and, as Boys do turn a looking-glass against the Sunne, so I will dazzle you all.
Peter AckroydStichwörter: inspiration time-passing
Bigotry does not consort easily with free trade.
Peter AckroydStichwörter: bigotry cosmopolitanism free-trade openmindedness
…a lie, once uttered, changes reality just as surely as if it were a great truth.
Peter AckroydNone of it seemed very real, but I suppose that's the trouble with
history. It's the one thing we have to make up for ourselves.
I believe now that there can be no real sense of loss or seperation without
the recognition of death; we were too young to consider any such eventuality,
and simply moved on with our lives into some indefinite but illimitable future.
…sorrow was always the bedfellow of depravity.
Peter AckroydTime. In another time. Either before or after. They were not stars,
but fires. They were the souls of birds. They were entries into the
vast fire. They were the eyes of the dead. And in the darkness they
were imprisoned by them.
The world is a sea in which we all must surely drown.
Peter AckroydThe best years are when you know what you're doing.
Peter AckroydSo we may use our books to form a barricade against the world,
interweaving their words with our own to ward off the heat of the day.
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