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"Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth," said his cousin. "But we seem to have no other."
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Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, was an English novelist, published in the original editions as I. Compton-Burnett. She was awarded the 1955 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for her novel Mother and Son. Her works consist mainly of dialogue and focus on family life among the late Victorian or Edwardian upper middle class.
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"Pushing forty? Shes clinging on to it for dear life!"
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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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"As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots."
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"In the age of the concentration camp, when from 1935 to 1947 or so, she wrote her very best novels, no writer did more to illumine the springs of human cruelty, suffering and bravery."
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"Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down."
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