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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.
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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[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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If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.
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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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charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.
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We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.
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What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?
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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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We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.
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A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.
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Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.
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People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
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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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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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Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.
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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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