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Ivy Compton-Burnett quotes
My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
There is more difference within the sexes than between them.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
Well, of course, people are only human... But it really does not seem much for them to be.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
Time is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
Pushing forty She's hanging on for dear life.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
The most original novelist now writing in English.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
Well, of course, people are only human," said Dudley to his brother, as they walked to the house behind the women. "But it really does not seem much for them to be.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
Time has too much credit," said Bridget. "I never agree with the compliments paid to it. It is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
I am ill at ease with people whose lives are an open book.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
Real life seems to have no plot.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
