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Stew's so comforting on a rainy day.

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Dodie Smith
Age: 94 †
Born: 1896
Born: May 3
Died: 1990
Died: November 24
Autobiographer
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Whitefield
Greater Manchester
Charles Henry Percy
C. L. Anthony
Dorothy Gladys Smith
Dorothy Gladys Beesley
Dorothy Beesley
Dodie Beesley
Rainy
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Stew

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Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
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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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And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.
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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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Oh, comfortable cocoa!
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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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It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.
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