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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
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London
England
I. Compton-Burnett
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it is in our minds that we live much of our life.
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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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It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.
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The most original novelist now writing in English.
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There is more difference within the sexes than between them.
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My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
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There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
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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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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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People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
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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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People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.
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We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.
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Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.
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charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.
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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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If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.
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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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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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There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.
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