L.P. Hartley Quotes

• It's better to write about things you feel than about things you know about.

  L.P. Hartley

  Writing, Feels, Writers And Writing

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• The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

  L.P. Hartley

  Country, Memories, Future

  "The Go-Between". Book by L.P. Hartley, 1953.

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• To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!

  L.P. Hartley

  L. P. Hartley, Colm Tóibín (2002). “The go-between”, NYRB Classics

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• Grown-ups didn't seem to realize that for me, as for most other schoolboys, it was easier to keep silent than to speak. I was a natural oyster.

  L.P. Hartley

  Oysters, Realizing, Speak

  L. P. Hartley (2015). “The Go-between”, p.104, Penguin UK

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• You insisted on thinking of them as angels, even if they were fallen angels.

  L.P. Hartley

  Angel, Thinking, Fallen

  L. P. Hartley, Colm Tóibín (2002). “The go-between”, NYRB Classics

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• My dream had become my reality: my old life was a discarded husk.

  L.P. Hartley

  Dream, Reality, Discarded

  L. P. Hartley (2015). “The Go-between”, p.93, Penguin UK

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• Readers tend to devour short stories on a newssheet, but would be disinclined to read them in collections

  L.P. Hartley

  Would Be, Stories, Short Story

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• Mr. Scott Fitzgerald deserves a good shaking. Here is an unmistakable talent unashamed of making itself a motley to the view. The Great Gatsby is an absurd story, whether considered as romance, melodrama, or plain record of New York high life.

  L.P. Hartley

  New York, Views, Romance

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