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It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.
Dodie Smith
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Dodie Smith
Age: 94 †
Born: 1896
Born: May 3
Died: 1990
Died: November 24
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Whitefield
Greater Manchester
Charles Henry Percy
C. L. Anthony
Dorothy Gladys Smith
Dorothy Gladys Beesley
Dorothy Beesley
Dodie Beesley
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I believe it is customary to get one's washing over first in baths and bask afterwards personally, I bask first. I have discovered that the first few minutes are the best and not to be wasted-- my brain always seethes with ideas and life suddenly looks much better than did.
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I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.
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Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.
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I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things?
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When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don't suppose many people try to do it.
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Oh, wise young judge.
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How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!
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Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness.
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People's clothes ought to be buried with them.
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What a tiny list of friends I have! All my fault. I less and less want to see people.
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... for I know I shall be interrupted-- I shall want to be, really, because life is too exciting to sit still for long.
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Oh, it is wonderful to wake up in the morning with things to look forward to!
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...I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.
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It's odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it. It makes it easier to think rather private thoughts.
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Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever.
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He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die--and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.
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