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

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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The most original novelist now writing in English.
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We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.
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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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To young people the future is still long.
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There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
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We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.
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There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.
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We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.
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People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.
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People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
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You should not want to know the things in people's minds. If you were meant to hear them, they would be said.
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Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.
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Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.
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We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.
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charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.
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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 will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement.
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It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.
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A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.
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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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