L.P. Hartley quotes
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“It's better to write about things you feel than about things you know about.”
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“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
-- L.P. HartleySource : "The Go-Between". Book by L.P. Hartley, 1953.
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“You insisted on thinking of them as angels, even if they were fallen angels.”
-- L.P. HartleySource : L. P. Hartley, Colm Tóibín (2002). “The go-between”, NYRB Classics
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“To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!”
-- L.P. HartleySource : L. P. Hartley, Colm Tóibín (2002). “The go-between”, NYRB Classics
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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.”
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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. HartleySource : L. P. Hartley (2015). “The Go-between”, p.104, Penguin UK
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“My dream had become my reality: my old life was a discarded husk.”
-- L.P. HartleySource : 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”
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Source : A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.14, Da Capo Press
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Source : A.L. Kennedy (2010). “Night Geometry And The Garscadden Trains”, p.20, Random House
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“feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal”
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“For something to hurt that bad, and feel so good, it's just inexplicable.”
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