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• There’s not much to say. I haven’t been at all deedy.

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• There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.

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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.

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• There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

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• We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.

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• And people in life hardly seem definite enough to appear in print. They are not good or bad enough, or clever or stupid enough, or comic or pitiful enough.

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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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• It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement. I cannot be asked to miss it in my weak state. I should only fret.

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• People don’t resent having nothing nearly as much as too little.

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• ‘Well, of course, people are only human,’ said Dudley to his brother, as they walked to the house behind the women. ‘But it really does not seem much for them to be.’

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• At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.

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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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• There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.

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• My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

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• There is more difference within the s*xes than between them.

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• People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.

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• There isn’t much to say. I haven’t been at all deedy.

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• Time 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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• Well, of course, people are only human… But it really does not seem much for them to be.

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Ivy Compton Burnett (19)

Birth:	5th June, 1884
Death:	27th August, 1969
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Novelist

About

Ivy Compton Burnett was born in Pinner, England. She was an English novelist, published in the original editions as I. Compton-Burnett. She earned a BA degree in Classics from Holloway College, University of London in 1906. She wrote several novels include: Pastors and Masters, More Women Than Men, A House and Its Head, Daughters and Sons, Manservant and Maidservant, Darkness and Day, The Present and the Past, A father and his fate, A Heritage and Its History, A God and His Gifts, and The Last and the First. She was awarded the 1955 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for her novel Mother and Son.

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