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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
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London
England
I. Compton-Burnett
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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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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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There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.
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People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.
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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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some people always have a touch of youth about them.
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Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.
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We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.
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We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.
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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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charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.
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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 do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.
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There is more difference within the sexes than between them.
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My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
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Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.
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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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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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What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?
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It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.
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