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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 is more difference within the sexes than between them.
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A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.
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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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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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[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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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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What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?
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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.
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The most original novelist now writing in English.
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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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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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It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.
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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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To young people the future is still long.
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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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some people always have a touch of youth about them.
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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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