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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
Fashion

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I wanted to know more about the young ... strange that though they laughed so loud, they so seldom smiled. Perhaps laughter was involuntary whereas smiling was part of an attitude to life.
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Stew's so comforting on a rainy day.
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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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What a tiny list of friends I have! All my fault. I less and less want to see people.
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Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes.
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People's clothes ought to be buried with them.
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The tea was a comfort - and by that time I more than needed comfort.
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Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
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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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