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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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England
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If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.
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some people always have a touch of youth about them.
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We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.
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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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To young people the future is still long.
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A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.
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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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Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.
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Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.
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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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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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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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The most original novelist now writing in English.
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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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My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
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it is in our minds that we live much of our life.
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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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What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?
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We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.
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