It is not for us to hold ourselves above the position of grateful people. We have to be able to accept. Anything else shows an unwillingness to grant someone else the superior place.

There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.

People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.

There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.

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.

Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down.

Ah, we have to be generous to be grateful ... One has oneself to be a giver.