L.P. Hartley Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“It's better to write about things you feel than about things you know about.”
-- L.P. Hartley

#Writing #Feels
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
-- L.P. Hartley

#Country #Memories #Future
“You insisted on thinking of them as angels, even if they were fallen angels.”
-- L.P. Hartley

#Angel #Thinking #Fallen Angels
“To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!”
-- L.P. Hartley
“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
“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
“My dream had become my reality: my old life was a discarded husk.”
-- L.P. Hartley

#Dream #Reality #Discarded

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