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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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charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.
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We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.
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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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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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We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.
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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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People have never lost what they think they have.
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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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It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.
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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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To young people the future is still long.
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Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.
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some people always have a touch of youth about them.
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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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