A Quote by Ivy Compton-Burnett
Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.
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Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.
Terror works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. Sorrow and horror and fear.
I just don't want to live in the past. I'm really disappointed by so many people of my generation who - in order to promote their new work, they have to constantly lean on their past. I don't want to be that type of artist... I see a lot of people out here doing really marginal music.
As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; youre on permanent trial.
As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; you're on permanent trial.
I'm not someone who lives in the past; I find other people live in my past. I live in the present and the future.
Sir, sorrow is inherent in humanity. As you cannot judge two and two to be either five, or three, but certainly four, so, when comparing a worse present state with a better which is past, you cannot but feel sorrow. It is not cured by reason, but by the incursion of present objects, which bear out the past.
I have lived a life full of love and pain, of Joy and Sorrow, and I live on still. i have many, many years ahead of me, each day with the potential to be filled to the brim with trials to face and challenges to overcome.
Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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You live in the present and you eliminate things that don't matter. You don't carry the burden of the past. I'm not impressed by the past very much. The past bores me, to tell you the truth; it really bores me. I don't remember many movies and certainly not my own.
I think people always misjudge me.
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