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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
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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
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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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It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns.
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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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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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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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So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy.
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Stew's so comforting on a rainy day.
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Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh!
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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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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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Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
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I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.
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I could marry the Devil himself if he had some money.
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I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.
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How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!
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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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Walking down Belmotte was the oddest sensation-- every step took us deeper into the mist until at last it closed over our heads. It was like being drowned in the ghost of water.
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