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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
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London
England
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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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If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.
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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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People have never lost what they think they have.
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It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.
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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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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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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 better to be drunk with loss and to beat the ground, than to let the deeper things gradually escape.
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There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.
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What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?
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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 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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Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.
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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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People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
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We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.
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some people always have a touch of youth about them.
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There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.
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A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.
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