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People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.

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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People
Truer
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To young people the future is still long.
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What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?
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charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.
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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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Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.
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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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There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.
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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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It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.
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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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