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charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.

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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Charm
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Surface

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We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.
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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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It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement.
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To young people the future is still long.
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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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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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There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.
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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 can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.
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it is in our minds that we live much of our life.
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We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.
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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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some people always have a touch of youth about them.
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