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A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

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Ivy Compton-Burnett
Age: 85 †
Born: 1884
Born: June 5
Died: 1969
Died: August 27
Novelist
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London
England
I. Compton-Burnett
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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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some people always have a touch of youth about them.
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People have never lost what they think they have.
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Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.
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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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It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement.
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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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We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.
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What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?
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People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.
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There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.
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It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.
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My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
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it is in our minds that we live much of our life.
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To young people the future is still long.
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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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