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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
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London
England
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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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A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.
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What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?
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Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.
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Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.
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charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.
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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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If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.
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It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.
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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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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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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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People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
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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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Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.
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We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.
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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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Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.
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There is more difference within the sexes than between them.
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