Ivy Compton-Burnett Quotes - Page 2

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• Ah, we have to be generous to be grateful ... One has oneself to be a giver.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Gratitude, Grateful, Giver

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “A Heritage and its History”, p.66, A&C Black

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• Pushing forty? She's hanging on for dear life.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Sarcastic, Memorable, Hanging On

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• We are always children to our mothers.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Mother, Children

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “A Heritage and its History”, p.63, A&C Black

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• Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Compton, Picks, Hard

  "The Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett". Book by Elizabeth Sprigge, 1973.

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• What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Concern, Self-importance

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “A Heritage and its History”, p.67, A&C Black

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• The plot is not very important to me, though a novel must have one, of course. It's just a line to hang the washing on.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Important, Plot, Lines

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• People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Self, People, Weakness

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “A Family and a Fortune”, p.147, A&C Black

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• [On writing:] What a difficult kind of work to choose! But of course one did not choose it. There was no choice.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Writing, Choices, Kind

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• We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Use, Used

  'Mother and Son' (1955) ch. 9

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• It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Family, Beautiful, Mean

  1939 A Family and a Fortune, ch.10.

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• Well, of course, people are only human... But it really does not seem much for them to be.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  People, Doe, Wells

  'A Family and a Fortune' (1939) ch. 2

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• To young people the future is still long.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Long, People, Youth

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “A Heritage and its History”, p.68, A&C Black

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• It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Thinking, People, Interest

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “Elders and Betters”, p.4, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Desire, Income, Way

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “A Family and a Fortune”, p.97, A&C Black

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• It is better to be drunk with loss and to beat the ground, than to let the deeper things gradually escape.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Loss, Drunk, Beats

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• I am ill at ease with people whose lives are an open book.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Book, People, Ease

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• There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Havens

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• Most of the pleasure of making a book would go if it held nothing to be shared by other people. I would write for a few dozen people, and sometimes it seems that I do so, but I would not write for no-one.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Book, Writing, People

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• There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Cowardice, Danger, Knows

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (1972). “The last and the first”

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• The most original novelist now writing in English.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Writing, Novelists, Originals

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• If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Children, Parent, Would Be

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “Two Worlds and Their Ways”, p.184, A&C Black

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• charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Use, Charm, Should

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• Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Children, Parent, Littles

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “Two Worlds and Their Ways”, p.144, A&C Black

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• Duty is seldom liked either by the doer or the object ... And why should it be? It is not often of advantage to either.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Doers, Advantage, Should

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “A Heritage and its History”, p.125, A&C Black

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• Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Truth, Done, Impossible

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (1972). “Darkness and day”

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