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There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.
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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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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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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It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement.
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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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charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.
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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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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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My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
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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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What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?
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it is in our minds that we live much of our life.
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Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.
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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 who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
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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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If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.
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To young people the future is still long.
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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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