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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
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London
England
I. Compton-Burnett
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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 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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[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 have never lost what they think they have.
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We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.
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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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It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement.
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My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
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If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.
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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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We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.
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It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.
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People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
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There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.
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We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.
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A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.
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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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As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.
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