A Quote by Ivy Compton-Burnett
Real life seems to have no plots.
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As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.
As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against life.
Cartoons for girls don't have to be a puddle of smooshy, cutesy-wootsy, goody-two-shoeness. Girls like stories with real conflict; girls are smart enough to understand complex plots; girls aren't as easily frightened as everyone seems to think.
All the characters and plots were predetermined. Games make bad plots.
All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots.
I still like to live in a whimsical world that seems more romantic and fantasy-related because real life seems so hard
People are more than their first impressions. And even if someone seems like a lot, or seems this way or that way, it doesn't mean they're not a three-dimensional person, with a real life.
I can also be very happy in this life, but it's usually happiness that I get from other lives I've lived and other dimensions. This life is hardly important to me. It's very small compared to the importance that I think the fourth and fifth dimension have. Those places are much more real to me, like when you have a dream and it's more real to you than real life. Compared to where I'll be going, this life seems like a dream that just feels like a dream.
A book sometimes seems to impose a through-line to life that real life doesn't actually have.
I can't remember any dreams in my life. There's so much strange in real life that it often seems like a dream.
The transformation of environment has become the purpose of human life; life seems real only insofar as it deals with things.
Making up characters and places and plots, unlike fixing your plumbing or doing dishes, is anything but practical or rational. I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right.
There are those who maintain that in this world women have no right to interfere in the affairs of state, in politics, in plots and counter-plots. Others that are who, more chivalrous, are willing to admit that women have as much right to act, think, and speak as men.
What I thought was unreal now, for me, seems in some ways to be more real than what I think to be real, which seems now to be unreal
Everything of this life as a mortal is fiction. It seems real, but...
We are but shadows: we are, not endowed with real life, and all that seems most real about us is but the thinnest substance of a dream,--till the heart be touched. That touch creates us--then we begin to be--thereby we are beings of reality and inheritors of eternity.
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