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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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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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Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.
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We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.
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There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.
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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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There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.
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People have never lost what they think they have.
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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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What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?
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Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.
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My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
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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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There is more difference within the sexes than between 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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If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.
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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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It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.
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