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Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness.
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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It's odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it. It makes it easier to think rather private thoughts.
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Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.
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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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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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I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame.
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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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Am I really admitting that my sister is determined to marry a man she has only seen once and doesn't much like the look of? It is half real and half pretense - and I have an idea that it is a game most girls play when they meet an eligible young men. They just...wonder.
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I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt.
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Father says hot water can be as stimulating as an alcoholic drink and though I never come by one...I can well believe it.
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I could marry the Devil himself if he had some money.
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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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So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy.
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The Devil's out of fashion.
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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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Death is too much to ask of the living.
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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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I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.
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Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.
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Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return -- that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness. For a moment I felt that I had discovered a great truth.
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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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