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I'm not saying that people have to listen to rock music. It's a great, cool thing and it can really be liberating for a lot of people but, hey, so can Charles Dickens so I'm not going to judge.


Frank Black


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I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.


Ben Okri


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We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.


Charles Dickens


#great-expectations #change

Mrs. Pocket was at home, and was in a little difficulty, on account of the baby's having been accommodated with a needle case to keep him quiet during the unaccountable absence (with a relative in the Foot Guards) of Millers. And more needles were missing than it could be regarded as quite wholesome for a patient of such tender years either to apply externally or to take as a tonic.


Charles Dickens


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That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never tolerate the idea of their wives laying their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never endure the notion of their children laying their heads on their pillows; in short , that there never more could be , for them or theirs , any laying of heads upon pillows at all , unless the prisioner's head was taken off. The Attorney General during the trial of Mr. Darnay


Charles Dickens


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One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded.


Danny Boyle


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In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.


A. N. Wilson


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Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough.


Anne Rice


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I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.


Anne Rice


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I had a kind of Dickensian childhood.


Shaun Cassidy


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