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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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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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As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.
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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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Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.
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To young people the future is still long.
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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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A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.
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