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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
Charm
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Surface
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some people always have a touch of youth about them.
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People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
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If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.
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We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.
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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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As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.
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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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People have never lost what they think they have.
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My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
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People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.
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We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.
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The most original novelist now writing in English.
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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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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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What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?
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To young people the future is still long.
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