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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.
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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People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
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My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
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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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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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Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.
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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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There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.
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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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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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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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There is more difference within the sexes than between them.
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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.
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People have never lost what they think they have.
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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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some people always have a touch of youth about them.
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People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.
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The most original novelist now writing in English.
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At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.
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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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