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L.P. Hartley Quotes

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

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

Writing, Feels, Writers And Writing

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

Country, Memories, Future

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

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

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

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.

Oysters, Realizing, Speak

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

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

Angel, Thinking, Fallen

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

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

Dream, Reality, Discarded

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

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

Would Be, Stories, Short Story

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.

New York, Views, Romance

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