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If you love people, you take them on trust.

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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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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Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?
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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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... 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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Perhaps it would really be rather dull to be married and settled for life. Liar! It would be heaven.
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He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die--and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.
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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, it is wonderful to wake up in the morning with things to look forward to!
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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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Death is too much to ask of the living.
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Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
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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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Only the margin left to write on now. I love you, I love you, I love you.
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So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy.
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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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