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L. P. Hartley Quotes

1895–1972 England

Leslie Poles Hartley (30 December 1895 – 13 December 1972) was a British writer.

England
Novelists
Short story writers

Also known as: LP Hartley, Lp Hartley

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

The Go-Between (1953)

"I might go for a walk." Even to me this sounded a pedestrian thing to do.

The Go-Between (1953)

"But men still shoot each other, don't they?" I asked hopefully.

The Go-Between (1953)

I remember walking to the cricket ground with the team, sometimes trying to feel, and sometimes trying not to feel, that I was one of them; and the conviction I had, which comes so quickly to a boy, that nothing in the world mattered except that we should win.

The Go-Between (1953)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: L. P. Hartley (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.