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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
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I never agree with the compliments paid to it. It is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.
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charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.
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Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.
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some people always have a touch of youth about them.
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People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
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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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People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.
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Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.
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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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A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.
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Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.
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My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
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You should not want to know the things in people's minds. If you were meant to hear them, they would be said.
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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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People have never lost what they think they have.
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There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.
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