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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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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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People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.
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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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Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.
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There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.
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Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.
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We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.
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People have never lost what they think they have.
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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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Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.
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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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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 are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.
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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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Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.
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A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.
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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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We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.
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