Ivy Compton-Burnett
Novelist United Kingdom 1884–1969
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My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
Well, of course, people are only human... But it really does not seem much for them to be.
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