Citas de Ivy Compton-Burnett

• There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Personas, Diferentes, Amables

  'The Mighty and their Fall' (1961) ch. 7

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• Never is a long word.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Long, Long Words

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “A Heritage and its History”, p.138, A&C Black

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• Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Matter, Way, Exaggeration

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “Parents and Children”, p.28, A&C Black

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• Mi juventud se escapa sin darme nada de lo que me debe.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Escaping, Giving, Youth

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “A Heritage and its History”, p.3, A&C Black

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• it is in our minds that we live much of our life.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Mind, Our Lives

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “A Heritage and its History”, p.23, A&C Black

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• There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Sex, Differences, Feminism

  Mother and Son ch. 10 (1955)

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• Real life seems to have no plots.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Life, Real, Plot

  1945 Orion, no.1,'A Conversation'.

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• Una persona que realmente puede ser llamada una persona altruista, no tiene lugar en la vida.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Selfishness, Unselfish, Persons

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “Elders and Betters”, p.72, Bloomsbury Publishing

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

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Women, People, Together

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2012). “Mother and Son”, p.134, A&C Black

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• Nunca sé por qué el autosacrificio es noble. Por qué es mejor sacrificarse uno mismo que a otra persona?

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Sacrifice, Self, Noble

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2012). “Mother and Son”, p.111, A&C Black

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

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Happiness, Cousin, Clue

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (1972). “Manservant and maidservant”

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• Podemos construir sobre cimientos en cualquier lugar si están bien y firmemente asentados.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Foundation, Wells, Ifs

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• some people always have a touch of youth about them.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  People, Age, Youth

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “A Family and a Fortune”, p.131, A&C Black

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• As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against life.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Real, Escribir, Pensar

  In R. Lehmann et al. Orion I (1945) p. 25

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• People have never lost what they think they have.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Pérdida, Pensamiento, Gente

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (1972). “Parents and children”

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• A plot is like the bones of a person, not interesting like expression, or signs of experience, but the support of the whole.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Expression, Interesting, Support

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• Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.

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  Past, People, Sorrow

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2012). “Mother and Son”, p.18, A&C Black

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

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  People, Mind

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• You should not want to know the things in people's minds. If you were meant to hear them, they would be said.

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  People, Mind, Would Be

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “Parents and Children”, p.225, A&C Black

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• Ninguno de nosotros habla con la gente como lo hacemos a sus espaldas.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  People, Insincerity, Behinds

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “A Heritage and its History”, p.67, A&C Black

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• When I die, people will say it is the best thing for me. It is because they know it is the worst. They want to avoid the feeling of pity. As though they were the people most concerned!

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Death, People, Feelings

  1961 The Mighty and Their Fall, ch.4.

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• Un leopardo no cambia sus manchas, ni cambia su sensación de que las manchas son más bien un mérito.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Feelings, Doe, Leopards

  "More Women Than Men". Book by Ivy Compton-Burnett, 1951.

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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.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Jam, Jars, Certain

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• People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Self, People, Weakness

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “A Family and a Fortune”, p.147, A&C Black

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

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Real, Plot, Helping

  1945 Orion, no.1,'A Conversation'.

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