Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by L.P. Hartley

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British novelist L.P. Hartley.

Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Leslie Poles Hartley was a British novelist and short story writer. Although his first fiction was published in 1924, his career was slow to take off. His best-known novels are the Eustace and Hilda trilogy (1944–47) and The Go-Between (1953). The latter was made into a film in 1971, as was his 1957 novel The Hireling in 1973. He was known for writing about social codes, moral responsibility and family relationships. In total, Hartley published 17 novels, six volumes of short stories and a book of criticism.

British - Novelist | December 30, 1895 - December 13, 1972

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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