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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
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Something
Impossible
Truth

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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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We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.
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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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It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement.
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it is in our minds that we live much of our life.
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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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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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charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.
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What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?
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A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.
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There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
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We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.
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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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Well, Buttermere, this is a day that is good to live and breathe in, that makes a man feel in his prime. Standing here in front of my house, I feel as young as when I moved into it thirty years ago, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-nine. What aged man would you take me to be, as I step as it were casually into your view?
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To young people the future is still long.
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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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Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.
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People have never lost what they think they have.
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