As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other. — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
Dear, dear, the miniature world of the family! All the emotions of mankind seem to find a place in it. — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think… — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
Most of the pleasure of making a book would go if it held nothing to be shared by other people. I would… — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
I never agree with the compliments paid to it. It is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one.… — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else? — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement. — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
“People do not like to lose their lives. That is the reason why they should not take other people's.” — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life. — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
The plot is not very important to me, though a novel must have one, of course. It's just a line to hang the washing… — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
Time is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it… — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best. — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
