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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
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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 no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.
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We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.
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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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[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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People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.
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Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.
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charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.
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We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.
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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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To young people the future is still long.
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There is more difference within the sexes than between them.
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There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
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Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.
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We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.
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There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.
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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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If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.
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A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.
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