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To young people the future is still long.
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
I. Compton-Burnett
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it is in our minds that we live much of our life.
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Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.
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Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.
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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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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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As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.
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Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.
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If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.
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We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.
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My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
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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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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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People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.
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The most original novelist now writing in English.
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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 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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There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
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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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There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.
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