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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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Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh!
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I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.
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Many dogs can understand almost every word humans say, while humans seldom learn to recognize more than half a dozen barks, if that. And barks are only a small part of the dog language. A wagging tail can mean so many things. Humans know that it means a dog is pleased, but not what a dog is saying about his pleasedness.
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Oh, it is wonderful to wake up in the morning with things to look forward to!
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The Devil's out of fashion.
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I have noticed that rooms which are extra clean feel extra cold
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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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Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.
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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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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 write this sitting in the kitchen sink.
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...I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.
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Death is too much to ask of the living.
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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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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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Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
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It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.
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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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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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Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?
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