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The most original novelist now writing in English.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
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Ivy Compton-Burnett
Age: 85 †
Born: 1884
Born: June 5
Died: 1969
Died: August 27
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England
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We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
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!
Ivy Compton-Burnett
To young people the future is still long.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
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.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
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
There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.
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
It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?
Ivy Compton-Burnett
It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
There is more difference within the sexes than between them.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
