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We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.
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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A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.
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We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.
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There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.
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My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
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it is in our minds that we live much of our life.
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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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A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.
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People have never lost what they think they have.
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Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.
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To young people the future is still long.
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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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There is more difference within the sexes than between them.
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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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