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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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As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against life.
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It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.
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There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.
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People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.
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To young people the future is still long.
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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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If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.
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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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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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Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.
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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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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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We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.
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Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.
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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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[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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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!
Ivy Compton-Burnett
What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?
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