Ivy Compton-Burnett - Person Quotes

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'She still seems to me in her own way a person born to command,' said Luce... 'I wonder if anyone is born to obey,' said Isabel. 'That may be why people command rather badly, that they have no suitable material to work on.'

Ivy Compton-Burnett

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

A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.

Ivy Compton-Burnett