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Robert Aickman

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Also known as Robert Fordyce Aickman

British writer and conservationist (1914-1981)

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Works
71

Top works

  • The Century's Best Horror Fiction. Volume 2
  • The Dark Descent
  • Cold Hand in Mine
  • The 4Th Fontana Book Of Great Ghost Stories
  • Dark Forces

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14
Total plays
157

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Quotes

  • She was almost glowing with resolution. She realized that to display moral qualities demands practice, just as much as intellectual and manual qualities.
  • She had rather looked down on such shops and on such clothes, but that had been ignorance and the wrong kind of sophistication.
  • I don’t spend all day reading the newspapers. It can get hold of you as poisonously as the television, if you once let it.
  • Upon the passage to truth, cross-currents are to be expected.
  • The idea came to him, not for the first time, that most of the things which people buy in the belief that they are luxuries are really poor substitutes for luxury.
  • It was, in any case, quite useless, and, like most useless things, useless almost immediately.

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date of birth
1914-06-27
date of death
1981-02-26
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