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The Devil's out of fashion.

Dodie Smith

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Dodie Smith
Age: 94 †
Born: 1896
Born: May 3
Died: 1990
Died: November 24
Autobiographer
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
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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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I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.
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Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh!
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How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!
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And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.
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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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Oh, comfortable cocoa!
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I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.
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