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People have never lost what they think they have.
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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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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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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Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.
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We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.
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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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charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.
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There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
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We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.
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A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in 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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A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.
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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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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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Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.
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Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.
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There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.
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People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
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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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If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.
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We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.
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