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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
Novelist
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London
England
I. Compton-Burnett
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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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We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.
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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 is more difference within the sexes than between them.
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The most original novelist now writing in English.
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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 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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Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.
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We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.
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People have never lost what they think they have.
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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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Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.
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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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Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.
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Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.
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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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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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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 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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