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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
Youth
Anything
Without
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Escaping
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We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.
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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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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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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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it is in our minds that we live much of our 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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It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.
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There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
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There is more difference within the sexes than between them.
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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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To young people the future is still long.
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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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People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
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People have never lost what they think they have.
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People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.
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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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[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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Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.
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If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.
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