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As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.
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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We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.
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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 can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.
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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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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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Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.
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There is more difference within the sexes than between them.
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it is in our minds that we live much of our life.
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We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.
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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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A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.
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There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.
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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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[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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