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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
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London
England
I. Compton-Burnett
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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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some people always have a touch of youth about them.
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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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Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.
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A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.
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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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People have never lost what they think they have.
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Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.
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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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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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We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.
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Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.
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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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There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.
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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's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.
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Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.
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People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
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What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?
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The most original novelist now writing in English.
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