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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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some people always have a touch of youth about them.
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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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Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.
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A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.
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There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.
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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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There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
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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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