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some people always have a touch of youth about 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
Age
Always
People
Touch
Youth

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People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.
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My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
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A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.
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Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.
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People have never lost what they think they have.
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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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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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It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement.
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I never agree with the compliments paid to it. It is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.
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charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.
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There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
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Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.
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As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against life.
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As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.
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