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Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.

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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Matter
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some people always have a touch of youth about them.
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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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It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.
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it is in our minds that we live much of our life.
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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 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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We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.
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We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.
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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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There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.
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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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As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.
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If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward 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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What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?
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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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Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.
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There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.
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There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
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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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