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Ivy Compton Burnett Inspirational Quotes (41)

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Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.
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There is more difference within the sexes than between them.
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A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.
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People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
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At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.
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Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.
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People have never lost what they think they have.
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You should not want to know the things in people's minds. If you were meant to hear them, they would be said.
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The plot is not very important to me, though a novel must have one, of course. It's just a line to hang the washing on.
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It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement.
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Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.
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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.
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some people always have a touch of youth about them.
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What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?
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There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
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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.
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I think I feel on the whole that something's there trying to get out ... It's sort of trying to get out and wants help.
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