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The Devil's out of fashion.

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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
Devil
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Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
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Only the margin left to write on now. I love you, I love you, I love you.
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Am I really admitting that my sister is determined to marry a man she has only seen once and doesn't much like the look of? It is half real and half pretense - and I have an idea that it is a game most girls play when they meet an eligible young men. They just...wonder.
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The key to all knowledge comes in words of just one syllable, apparently.... There's only the last page left to write on. I'll fill it with words of just one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.
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I could marry the Devil himself if he had some money.
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I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame.
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Certain unique books seem to be without forerunners or successors as far as their authors are concerned. Even though they may profoundly influence the work of other writers, for their creator they're complete, not leading anywhere.
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Oh, comfortable cocoa!
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Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
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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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Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness.
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Was I the only woman in the world who, at my age - and after a lifetime of quite rampant independence - still did not quite feel grown up?
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It came to me that Hyde Park has never belonged to London - that it has always been , in spirit, a stretch of countryside and that it links the Londons of all periods together most magically - by remaining forever unchanged at the heart of a ever-changing town.
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But some characters in books are really real--Jane Austen's are and I know those five Bennets at the opening of Pride and Prejudice, simply waiting to raven the young men at Netherfield Park, are not giving one thought to the real facts of marriage.
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What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?
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Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh!
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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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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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I have noticed that rooms which are extra clean feel extra cold
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