(11 quotes found)
“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
“There is more difference within the sexes than between them.”
“People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.”
“A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit”
“I am ill at ease with people whose lives are an open book”
“At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.”
“There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.”
“Real life seems to have no plots”
“There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.”
“Well, of course, people are only human... But it really does not seem much for them to be.”
