Well, Of Course, People Are Only Human...

Anyone Who Picks Up A Compton-burnett Finds It Very Hard Not To Put It Down.

Civilized Life Exacts Its Toll.

People Who Have Power Respond Simply. They Have No Minds But Their Own.

If I Were Not A Child With My Parents, They Would Be More Unloving Toward Me.

I Never Agree With The Compliments Paid To It. It 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.