L.P. Hartley famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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.
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You insisted on thinking of them as angels, even if they were fallen angels.
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To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!
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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.
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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
-- L.P. Hartley
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He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.
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Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
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It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
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Its sort of my job to feel good.
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Not just a timely movie, a great one...Timbuktu feels at once timely and permanent, immediate and essential.
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Nothing makes you feel more stupid than finding out you were wrong when you thought you were loved.
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I know this because I understand now what love really feels like. The kind that consumes you. Love holds the power to break you. It holds the power to complete you.
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You feel real good, Lana. Makes me forget everything else
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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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