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It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement.
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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[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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There is more difference within the sexes than between them.
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Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.
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some people always have a touch of youth about them.
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People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
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We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.
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Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.
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The most original novelist now writing in English.
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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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