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Ivy Compton-Burnett
Age: 85 †
Born: 1884
Born: June 5
Died: 1969
Died: August 27
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London
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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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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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A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.
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A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.
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If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.
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People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.
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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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There is more difference within the sexes than between them.
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Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.
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People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
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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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We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.
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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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We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.
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some people always have a touch of youth about them.
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Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.
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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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It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.
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What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?
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