Readers tend to devour short stories on a newssheet, but would be disinclined to read them in collections - L.P. Hartley - Quotesmemo.com

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I think I work as hard as I do now, because of a lot of lessons I've learned early on.

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L.P. Hartley

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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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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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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