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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.
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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It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.
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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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Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.
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There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.
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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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Well, Buttermere, this is a day that is good to live and breathe in, that makes a man feel in his prime. Standing here in front of my house, I feel as young as when I moved into it thirty years ago, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-nine. What aged man would you take me to be, as I step as it were casually into your view?
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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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[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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People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
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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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There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
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You should not want to know the things in people's minds. If you were meant to hear them, they would be said.
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There is more difference within the sexes than between them.
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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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We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.
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charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.
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some people always have a touch of youth about them.
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We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.
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A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.
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The most original novelist now writing in English.
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