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A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.
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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London
England
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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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It is better to be drunk with loss and to beat the ground, than to let the deeper things gradually escape.
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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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My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
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People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.
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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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What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?
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If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.
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People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
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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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There is more difference within the sexes than between them.
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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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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.
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