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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.
Dodie Smith
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Dodie Smith
Age: 94 †
Born: 1896
Born: May 3
Died: 1990
Died: November 24
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Greater Manchester
Charles Henry Percy
C. L. Anthony
Dorothy Gladys Smith
Dorothy Gladys Beesley
Dorothy Beesley
Dodie Beesley
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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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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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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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The Devil's out of fashion.
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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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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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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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I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.
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Ah, but you're the insidious type--Jane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous girl.
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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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Oh, comfortable cocoa!
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So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy.
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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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Oh, it is wonderful to wake up in the morning with things to look forward to!
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I could marry the Devil himself if he had some money.
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I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.
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Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.
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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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