Ivy Compton-Burnett Quotes - Page 2

• ¿Pasando los cuarenta? Se está aferrando a la vida.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Sarcastic, Memorable, Hanging On

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• It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.

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  Pensamiento, Gente, Interés

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “Elders and Betters”, p.4, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Civilized life exacts its toll.

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  Tolls, Civilized

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• Ah, we have to be generous to be grateful ... One has oneself to be a giver.

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  Gratitude, Grateful, Giver

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “A Heritage and its History”, p.66, A&C Black

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• Dear, dear, the miniature world of the family! All the emotions of mankind seem to find a place in it.

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  Family, World, Emotion

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

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• charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.

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  Use, Charm, Should

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• We are always children to our mothers.

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  Mother, Children

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “A Heritage and its History”, p.63, A&C Black

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• Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down.

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  Compton, Picks, Hard

  "The Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett". Book by Elizabeth Sprigge, 1973.

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• 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 on.

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  Important, Plot, Lines

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• What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?

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  Concern, Self-importance

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

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• [On writing:] What a difficult kind of work to choose! But of course one did not choose it. There was no choice.

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  Writing, Choices, Kind

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• We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.

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  Use, Used

  'Mother and Son' (1955) ch. 9

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• It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement.

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  Family, Beautiful, Mean

  1939 A Family and a Fortune, ch.10.

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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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  People, Doe, Wells

  'A Family and a Fortune' (1939) ch. 2

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• To young people the future is still long.

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  Long, People, Youth

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “A Heritage and its History”, p.68, A&C Black

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• Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.

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  Desire, Income, Way

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “A Family and a Fortune”, p.97, A&C Black

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• It is better to be drunk with loss and to beat the ground, than to let the deeper things gradually escape.

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  Loss, Drunk, Beats

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

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  Havens

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• I am ill at ease with people whose lives are an open book.

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  Book, People, Ease

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• Most of the pleasure of making a book would go if it held nothing to be shared by other people. I would write for a few dozen people, and sometimes it seems that I do so, but I would not write for no-one.

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  Libro, Escritura, Personas

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• No nos corresponde situarnos por encima de la posición de las personas agradecidas. Tenemos que ser capaces de aceptar. Cualquier otra cosa demuestra una falta de voluntad para conceder a otro el lugar superior.

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  Grateful, People, Able

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “A Family and a Fortune”, p.104, A&C Black

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• There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents.

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  Cowardice, Danger, Knows

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (1972). “The last and the first”

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• The most original novelist now writing in English.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Writing, Novelists, Originals

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• Well, Buttermere, this is a day that is good to live and breathe in, that makes a man feel in his prime. Standing here in front of my house, I feel as young as when I moved into it thirty years ago, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-nine. What aged man would you take me to be, as I step as it were casually into your view?

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  Book, Men, Views

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “Men and Wives”, p.2, A&C Black

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• Real charity and real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what lies beneath things.

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  Real, Mentir, Dar

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