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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
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There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.
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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 who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
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My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
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We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.
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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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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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The plot is not very important to me, though a novel must have one, of course. It's just a line to hang the washing on.
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There is more difference within the sexes than between them.
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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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it is in our minds that we live much of our life.
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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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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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What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?
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