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People's clothes ought to be buried with them.
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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And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.
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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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What a tiny list of friends I have! All my fault. I less and less want to see people.
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Oh, wise young judge.
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Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
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It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.
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Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
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The tea was a comfort - and by that time I more than needed comfort.
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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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Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?
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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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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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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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How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!
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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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Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes.
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Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh!
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I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.
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Rose doesn’t like the flat country, but I always did – flat country seems to give the sky such a chance.
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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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