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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.
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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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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We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.
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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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Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.
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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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As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.
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The most original novelist now writing in English.
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We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.
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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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My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
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What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?
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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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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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charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.
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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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People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
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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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It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement.
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