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There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

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Ivy Compton-Burnett
Age: 85 †
Born: 1884
Born: June 5
Died: 1969
Died: August 27
Novelist
Writer
London
England
I. Compton-Burnett
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Within
Sexes
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People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
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Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.
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The most original novelist now writing in English.
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charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.
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There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.
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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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We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.
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Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.
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