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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
I. Compton-Burnett
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some people always have a touch of youth about them.
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If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.
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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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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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We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.
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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 are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.
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charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.
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People have never lost what they think they have.
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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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There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
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Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.
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