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Ivy Compton-Burnett Quotes

1884–1969 England

Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett DBE (5 June 1884 – 27 August 1969) was an award-winning English novelist.

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

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

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

"Well, of course, people are only human," said Dudley to his brother, as they walked to the house behind the women. "But it really does not seem much for them to be."

"Time has too much credit," said Bridget. "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."

Pushing forty? She's clinging on to it for dear life!

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ivy Compton-Burnett (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.