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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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There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.
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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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There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
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Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.
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Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.
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A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.
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Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.
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If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.
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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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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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We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.
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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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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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We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.
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We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.
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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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People have never lost what they think they have.
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We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.
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It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.
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My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
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