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There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.

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
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It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.
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Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.
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The most original novelist now writing in English.
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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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People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.
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There is more difference within the sexes than between 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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some people always have a touch of youth about them.
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Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.
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People have never lost what they think they have.
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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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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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We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.
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We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.
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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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A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.
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A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.
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it is in our minds that we live much of our life.
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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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