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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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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
Imaginings
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Happens
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Curbing

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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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Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.
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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 believe it is customary to get one's washing over first in baths and bask afterwards personally, I bask first. I have discovered that the first few minutes are the best and not to be wasted-- my brain always seethes with ideas and life suddenly looks much better than did.
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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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Only the margin left to write on now. I love you, I love you, I love you.
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If you love people, you take them on trust.
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Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh!
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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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Perhaps it would really be rather dull to be married and settled for life. Liar! It would be heaven.
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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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