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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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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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There is more difference within the sexes than between them.
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The most original novelist now writing in English.
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We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.
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charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.
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We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.
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People have never lost what they think they have.
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There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
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Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.
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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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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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There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.
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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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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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Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.
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some people always have a touch of youth about them.
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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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