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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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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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As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.
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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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A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.
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Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.
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There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.
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The plot is not very important to me, though a novel must have one, of course. It's just a line to hang the washing on.
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If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.
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charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.
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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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There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
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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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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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it is in our minds that we live much of our life.
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some people always have a touch of youth about them.
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People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.
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There is more difference within the sexes than between them.
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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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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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