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"But men still shoot each other, dont they?" I asked hopefully."
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L. P. Hartley
author1944–1947
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Leslie Poles Hartley was an English novelist and short story writer. Although his first fiction was published in 1924, his best-known works are the Eustace and Hilda trilogy (1944–1947) and The Go-Between (1953). The latter was made into a film in 1971, as was his 1957 novel The Hireling in 1973.
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"I might go for a walk." Even to me this sounded a pedestrian thing to do."
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"I caught glimpses of white-clad figures striding purposefully to and fro, heard mens voices calling each other in tones of authority and urgency, as if life had suddenly become more serious, as if battle were in prospect."
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"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."
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