"I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my Cockney accent."

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Peter Ackroyd

#Class Quotes #Effort Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“He thought of men like Hitler, Stalin, and Napoleon. All it took was a lot of seemingly decent people to put the wrong person in power and then fall under their spell.”
“I don't ever remember having any bad times here in Pittsburgh.”
“It's not fair that people ignore AIDS in Africa because it's Africa. It's not fair.”
“What term do you employ when you speak of your progenitor?" I answered with the term I'd always wanted to employ. "Sonovabitch." "To his face?" she asked. "I never see his face." "He wears a mask?" "In a way, yes. Of stone. Of absolute stone.”

Source : Erich Segal (1970). “Love Story”
“Money is both the generation and corruption of purchased honor; honor is both the child and slave of potent money: the credit which honor hath lost, money hath found. When honor grew mercenary, money grew honorable. The way to be truly noble is to contemn both.”
“My whole act is off the top of my head.”
“just like a murderer jumps of nowhere in an ally, love jumped out in front of us and struck us both at once”
“With Maurice suddenly going, I realised... I think I've matured. I don't take things lightly any more.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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