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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
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London
England
I. Compton-Burnett
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People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.
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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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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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People have never lost what they think they have.
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some people always have a touch of youth about them.
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Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.
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Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.
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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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Well, Buttermere, this is a day that is good to live and breathe in, that makes a man feel in his prime. Standing here in front of my house, I feel as young as when I moved into it thirty years ago, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-nine. What aged man would you take me to be, as I step as it were casually into your view?
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To young people the future is still long.
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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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There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.
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If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.
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It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.
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We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.
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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.
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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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it is in our minds that we live much of our life.
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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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