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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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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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Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.
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We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.
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It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement.
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To young people the future is still long.
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We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.
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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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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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The most original novelist now writing in English.
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some people always have a touch of youth about them.
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We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.
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charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.
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My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
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People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
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People have never lost what they think they have.
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There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
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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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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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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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We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.
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