Ivy Compton-Burnett
Novelist
1884-06-05 – 1969-08-27
Ivy Compton-Burnett was an English novelist known for dialogue-driven fiction focused on family power and social hierarchy.
Quotes by Ivy Compton-Burnett
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As regards plots 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 real life. But I think there are signs that strange things happen, though they do not emerge
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As regards plots 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 real life. But I think there are signs that strange things happen, though they do not emerge
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A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.
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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.
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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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There is more difference within the sexes than between them.
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Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth. But we seem to have no other.
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