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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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Surface
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When I die, people will say it is the best thing for me. It is because they know it is the worst. They want to avoid the feeling of pity. As though they were the people most concerned!
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Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.
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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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There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.
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it is in our minds that we live much of our life.
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We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.
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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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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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Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.
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Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.
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The most original novelist now writing in English.
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People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.
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There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.
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Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.
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People have never lost what they think they have.
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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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A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.
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People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
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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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