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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
Life
Minds
Live
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We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.
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We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.
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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 not for us to hold ourselves above the position of grateful people. We have to be able to accept. Anything else shows an unwillingness to grant someone else the superior place.
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If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.
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Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.
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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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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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charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.
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People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.
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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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We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.
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To young people the future is still long.
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Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.
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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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People have never lost what they think they have.
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