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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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It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement.
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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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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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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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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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If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward 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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People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
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There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.
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Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.
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charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.
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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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We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.
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People have never lost what they think they have.
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The most original novelist now writing in English.
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People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.
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There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
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it is in our minds that we live much of our life.
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What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?
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