L.P. Hartley quotes:
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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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My dream had become my reality: my old life was a discarded husk.
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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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Readers tend to devour short stories on a newssheet, but would be disinclined to read them in collections
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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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You insisted on thinking of them as angels, even if they were fallen angels.
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It's better to write about things you feel than about things you know about.