“My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.”
Source: A Heritage and its History
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Famous Ivy Compton-Burnett Quotes
“People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.”
“As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.”
“There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.”
“Well, of course, people are only human... But it really does not seem much for them to be.”
“There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.”
Source: Mother and Son