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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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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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We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.
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A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.
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We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.
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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 plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.
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some people always have a touch of youth about them.
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If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward 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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[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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To young people the future is still long.
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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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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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charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.
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There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.
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It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.
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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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People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
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People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.
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There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.
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