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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.
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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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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My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
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People have never lost what they think they have.
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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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A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.
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There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.
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What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?
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There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.
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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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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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We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.
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People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
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A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.
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some people always have a touch of youth about them.
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There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
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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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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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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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charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.
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