Ivy Compton-Burnett Quotes

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• There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  People, Different, Kind

  'The Mighty and their Fall' (1961) ch. 7

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• Never is a long word.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Long, Long Words

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “A Heritage and its History”, p.138, A&C Black

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• Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.

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  Matter, Way, Exaggeration

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “Parents and Children”, p.28, A&C Black

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• it is in our minds that we live much of our life.

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  Mind, Our Lives

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “A Heritage and its History”, p.23, A&C Black

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• My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

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  Escaping, Giving, Youth

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “A Heritage and its History”, p.3, A&C Black

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• There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

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  Sex, Differences, Feminism

  Mother and Son ch. 10 (1955)

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• Real life seems to have no plots.

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  Life, Real, Plot

  1945 Orion, no.1,'A Conversation'.

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• People have never lost what they think they have.

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  Loss, Thinking, People

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (1972). “Parents and children”

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• There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.

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  Women, People, Together

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2012). “Mother and Son”, p.134, A&C Black

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• I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?

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  Sacrifice, Self, Noble

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2012). “Mother and Son”, p.111, A&C Black

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• A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.

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  Selfishness, Unselfish, Persons

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “Elders and Betters”, p.72, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Foundation, Wells, Ifs

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• Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other.

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  Happiness, Cousin, Clue

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (1972). “Manservant and maidservant”

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• some people always have a touch of youth about them.

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  People, Age, Youth

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “A Family and a Fortune”, p.131, A&C Black

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• As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against life.

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  Real, Writing, Thinking

  In R. Lehmann et al. Orion I (1945) p. 25

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• You should not want to know the things in people's minds. If you were meant to hear them, they would be said.

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  People, Mind, Would Be

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “Parents and Children”, p.225, A&C Black

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• Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.

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  Past, People, Sorrow

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2012). “Mother and Son”, p.18, A&C Black

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• We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.

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  People, Insincerity, Behinds

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

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• A plot is like the bones of a person, not interesting like expression, or signs of experience, but the support of the whole.

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  Expression, Interesting, Support

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• People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.

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  People, Mind

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• When I die, people will say it is the best thing for me. It is because they know it is the worst. They want to avoid the feeling of pity. As though they were the people most concerned!

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  Death, People, Feelings

  1961 The Mighty and Their Fall, ch.4.

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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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• A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Feelings, Doe, Leopards

  "More Women Than Men". Book by Ivy Compton-Burnett, 1951.

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• 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

  Jam, Jars, Certain

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• As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.

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  Real, Plot, Helping

  1945 Orion, no.1,'A Conversation'.

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