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Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.
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
I. Compton-Burnett
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Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.
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some people always have a touch of youth about them.
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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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it is in our minds that we live much of our life.
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A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in 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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People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
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We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.
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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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The most original novelist now writing in English.
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We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.
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We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.
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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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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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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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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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