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We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.
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
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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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There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.
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some people always have a touch of youth about them.
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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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A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.
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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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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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Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.
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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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What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?
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As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against life.
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As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.
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There is more difference within the sexes than between them.
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To young people the future is still long.
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It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.
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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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The most original novelist now writing in English.
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We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.
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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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We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.
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