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What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?
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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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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To young people the future is still long.
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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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My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
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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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Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.
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People have never lost what they think they have.
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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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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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Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.
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Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.
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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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A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.
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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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There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.
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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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some people always have a touch of youth about them.
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charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.
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There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.
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