L. P. Hartley

Leslie Poles Hartley was a British writer.

The Go-Between (1953)

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

  • "But men still shoot each other, don't they?" I asked hopefully.
"They shot me," he answered, with what I took to be a smile.
"Yes, but that was in a war. Do they still shoot each other over ladies?" I imagined a carpet of prostrate women, over whom shots rang out.

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