Top 20 L.P. Hartley Quotes
#1. It's better to write about things you feel than about things you know about.
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#2. Readers tend to devour short stories on a newssheet, but would be disinclined to read them in collections
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#3. My father was, I suppose, a crank. He had a fine, precise mind, which ignored what it was not interested in.
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#4. To see things as they really were
what an empoverishment!
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#5. 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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#6. Not Adam and Eve, after eating the apple, could have been more upset than I was.
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#7. If personality expresses itself by acts of discrimination, and discrimination, besides being taboo, has no material to work on, what becomes of personality? It shrinks, it atrophies, it dies.
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#8. The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
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#9. His mother's face expressed a prayer for patience.
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#10. Even the most impassioned devotee of the ghost story would admit that the taste for it is slightly abnormal, a survival, perhaps, from adolescence, a disease of deficiency suffered by those whose lives and imaginations do not react satisfactorily to normal experience and require an extra thrill
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#11. Why do you like Hugh better? Because he is a Viscount?'
'Well, that's one reason,' I admitted, without any false shame. Respect for degree was in my blood and I didn't think of it as snobbery.
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#12. But I was not so much interested in facts themselves as in the importance they had for my imagination. I was passionately interested in railways, and in the relative speed of the fastest express trains; but I did not understand the principle of the steam engine and had no wish to learn.
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#13. I should not have cared to see it as an act of self-sacrifice even if it had been one; for there is nothing clever in self-sacrifice, nothing to pride oneself on.
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#15. You insisted on thinking of them as angels, even if they were fallen angels.
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#16. The conversation of the gods! - I didn't resent or feel aggrieved because I couldn't understand it. I was the smallest of the planets, and if I carried messages between them and I couldn't always understand, that was in order too: they were something in a foreign language - star-talk.
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#17. You flew too near the sun and you were scorched.
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#18. I had never met a lord before, nor had I ever expected to meet one. It didn't matter what he looked like: he was a lord first, and a human being, with a face and limbs and body, long, long after.
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#19. My dream had become my reality: my old life was a discarded husk.
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#20. 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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