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People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
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Ivy Compton-Burnett
Age: 85 †
Born: 1884
Born: June 5
Died: 1969
Died: August 27
Novelist
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London
England
I. Compton-Burnett
People
Truer
Weaker
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Self
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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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You should not want to know the things in people's minds. If you were meant to hear them, they would be said.
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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 leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.
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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 in our minds that we live much of our life.
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There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.
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What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?
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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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Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.
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If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.
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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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It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.
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charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.
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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 who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
To young people the future is still long.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
