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Ivy Compton-Burnett [1884-1969] English
Rank: 101
Novelist


Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, DBE was an English novelist, published as I. Compton-Burnett. She was awarded the 1955 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for her novel Mother and Son.

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My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
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A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit. Change
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Well, of course, people are only human... But it really does not seem much for them to be.
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There is more difference within the sexes than between them.
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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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There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
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People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
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At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.
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There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.
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