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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
I. Compton-Burnett
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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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We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.
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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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some people always have a touch of youth about them.
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A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.
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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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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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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 have never lost what they think they have.
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People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.
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We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.
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There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.
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There is more difference within the sexes than between them.
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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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it is in our minds that we live much of our life.
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When I die, people will say it is the best thing for me. It is because they know it is the worst. They want to avoid the feeling of pity. As though they were the people most concerned!
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Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.
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My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
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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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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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