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I am ill at ease with people whose lives are an open book.
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Ah, we have to be generous to be grateful.... One has oneself to be a giver.
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It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.
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Ivy Compton-Burnett
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Born:
June 5, 1884
Died:
August 27, 1969
(aged 85)
Bio:
Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett was an English novelist, published as I. Compton-Burnett. She was awarded the 1955 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for her novel Mother and Son.
Known for:
A House and Its Head (1935)
Manservant and Maidservant (1947)
Pastors and Masters (1925)
The Present and the Past (1951)
A family and a fortune (1939)
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