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If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.
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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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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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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