Word Spy - Ivy Compton-Burnett

Ivy Compton-Burnett
British novelist

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We must use words as they are used or stand aside from life.
—Ivy Compton-Burnett, British novelist, Mother and Son, 1955

Posted on December 1, 1998 at 11:10 AM

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