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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
Truth
Done
Something
Impossible

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We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.
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Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.
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To young people the future is still long.
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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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People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
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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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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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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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People have never lost what they think they have.
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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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