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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
Escaping
Youth
Anything
Without
Giving
Owes

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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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We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.
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[On writing:] What a difficult kind of work to choose! But of course one did not choose it. There was no choice.
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To young people the future is still long.
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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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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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Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.
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A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.
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If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.
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People have never lost what they think they have.
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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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There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.
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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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There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.
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Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.
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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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Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.
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Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.
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There is more difference within the sexes than between them.
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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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