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Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

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Ivy Compton-Burnett
Age: 85 †
Born: 1884
Born: June 5
Died: 1969
Died: August 27
Novelist
Writer
London
England
I. Compton-Burnett
Impossible
Truth
Done
Something

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There is more difference within the sexes than between them.
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A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.
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People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.
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We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.
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We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.
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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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We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from 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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it is in our minds that we live much of our life.
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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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People have never lost what they think they have.
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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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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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A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.
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The most original novelist now writing in English.
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Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.
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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 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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[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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