Ivy Compton-Burnett
Ivy Compton-Burnett

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

Ivy Compton-Burnett
Ivy Compton-Burnett

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.

Ivy Compton-Burnett
Ivy Compton-Burnett

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

Ivy Compton-Burnett
Ivy Compton-Burnett

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

Ivy Compton-Burnett
Ivy Compton-Burnett

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

Ivy Compton-Burnett
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
Ivy Compton-Burnett

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

Ivy Compton-Burnett
Ivy Compton-Burnett

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