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My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

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Ivy Compton-Burnett
Age: 85 †
Born: 1884
Born: June 5
Died: 1969
Died: August 27
Novelist
Writer
London
England
I. Compton-Burnett
Youth
Anything
Without
Giving
Owes
Escaping

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some people always have a touch of youth about them.
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it is in our minds that we live much of our life.
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Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.
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To young people the future is still long.
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If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.
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There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.
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As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.
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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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charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.
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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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When I die, people will say it is the best thing for me. It is because they know it is the worst. They want to avoid the feeling of pity. As though they were the people most concerned!
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We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.
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We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.
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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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A plot is like the bones of a person, not interesting like expression, or signs of experience, but the support of the whole.
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There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
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It is better to be drunk with loss and to beat the ground, than to let the deeper things gradually escape.
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A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.
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