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We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.
— 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
I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
It is so subtle to write things that have no meaning
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
Everything is breaking stones, up to a point.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
Pushing forty? She's hanging on for dear life.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
It is in our minds that we live much of our life.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces ...
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
A plot is like the bones of a person, not interesting like expression, or signs of experience, but the support of the whole.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
The wrong is never the only thing a wrong-doer has done.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
Some people always have a touch of youth about them.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
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
Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
Well, of course, people are only human ... But it really does not seem much for them to be.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
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
We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
...poets generally write as if they were dead.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
You should not want to know the things in people's minds. If you were meant to hear them, they would be said.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
Dear, dear, the miniature world of the family! All the emotions of mankind seem to find a place in it.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
Charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
Real life seems to have no plots.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
People do not like to lose their lives. That is the reason why they should not take other people's.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
Civilized life exacts its toll.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
Never is a long word.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
I think I feel on the whole that something's there trying to get out ... It's sort of trying to get out and wants help.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
[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
We are always children to our mothers.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
I wonder the human race has been so fond of migrations, when the young take so hardly to traveling ...
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
It is better to be drunk with loss and to beat the ground, than to let the deeper things gradually escape.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
The most original novelist now writing in English.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
People have never lost what they think they have.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
Ah, we have to be generous to be grateful ... One has oneself to be a giver.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
To young people the future is still long.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
I am ill at ease with people whose lives are an open book.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me ...
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
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