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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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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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We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.
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People have never lost what they think they have.
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it is in our minds that we live much of our life.
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some people always have a touch of youth about them.
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There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
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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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Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.
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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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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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A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.
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Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.
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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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The most original novelist now writing in English.
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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 is more difference within the sexes than between them.
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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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To young people the future is still long.
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Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.
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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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