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some people always have a touch of youth about them.
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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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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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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Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.
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We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.
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To young people the future is still long.
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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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My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
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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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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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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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It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement.
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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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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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A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.
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There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
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There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.
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If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.
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There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.
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