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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.
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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We were restless for ages...After a while I heard an owl hooting and calmed myself by thinking of it flying over the dark fields – and then I remembered it would be pouncing on mice. I love owls, but I wish God had made them vegetarian.
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Oh, it is wonderful to wake up in the morning with things to look forward to!
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Death is too much to ask of the living.
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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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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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Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.
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Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
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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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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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People's clothes ought to be buried with them.
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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 am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.
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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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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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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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Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
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The key to all knowledge comes in words of just one syllable, apparently.... There's only the last page left to write on. I'll fill it with words of just one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.
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Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness.
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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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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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