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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.
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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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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There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
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Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.
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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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To young people the future is still long.
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People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
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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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Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.
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We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.
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There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.
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Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.
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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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charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.
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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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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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A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.
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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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