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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
Novelist
Writer
London
England
I. Compton-Burnett
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Think
Thinking
People
Loss
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There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.
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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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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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We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.
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We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from 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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As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.
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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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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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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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We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.
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The most original novelist now writing in English.
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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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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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