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it is in our minds that we live much of our life.

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
Minds
Live
Much
Mind
Life

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some people always have a touch of youth about them.
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What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?
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There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.
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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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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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[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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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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Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.
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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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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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My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
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charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.
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Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.
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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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A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.
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Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for 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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We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.
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