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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 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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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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There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.
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It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.
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We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.
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If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.
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The most original novelist now writing in English.
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There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.
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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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Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.
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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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Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.
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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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Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.
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What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?
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charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.
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some people always have a touch of youth about them.
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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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Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.
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People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.
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