Ivy Compton-Burnett - Course Quotes

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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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Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past. And it is not a course to be wished for them.

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"Well, of course, people are only human," said Dudley to his brother, as they walked to the house behind the women. "But it really does not seem much for them to be."

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