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It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.
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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England
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Well, Buttermere, this is a day that is good to live and breathe in, that makes a man feel in his prime. Standing here in front of my house, I feel as young as when I moved into it thirty years ago, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-nine. What aged man would you take me to be, as I step as it were casually into your view?
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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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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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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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A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.
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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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There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.
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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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A plot is like the bones of a person, not interesting like expression, or signs of experience, but the support of the whole.
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We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.
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My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
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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 isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.
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We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.
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We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.
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some people always have a touch of youth about them.
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We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from 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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Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.
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Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.
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