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Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.
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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Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.
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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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some people always have a touch of youth about them.
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If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.
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We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.
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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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People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.
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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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To young people the future is still long.
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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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My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes 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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