“You're still the same girl. What people do doesn't change their nature.”

— Kingsley Amis, book Take a Girl Like You

She shook her head.[…] 'What they do is their nature,' she said.
Patrick Standish and Jenny Bunn in Ch. 27
Take a Girl Like You (1960)

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English novelist, poet, critic, teacher 1922–1995

Kingsley Amis book Take a Girl Like You

Patrick Standish and Jenny Bunn in Ch. 27
Take a Girl Like You (1960)

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“You're still the same girl. What people do doesn't change their nature.”

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