Quotes from Ivy Compton-Burnett


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

    Change | Credit | Feeling


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

    Giving | Youth | Owes


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

    Seem | Course


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

    Power | Minds | Respond


    There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

    Difference | Within | Sexes


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

    Together | Blinding


    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.

    Time | Great | Healing


    At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.

    Point | Jam | Jar


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


       

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