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If you love people, you take them on trust.

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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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Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.
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Am I really admitting that my sister is determined to marry a man she has only seen once and doesn't much like the look of? It is half real and half pretense - and I have an idea that it is a game most girls play when they meet an eligible young men. They just...wonder.
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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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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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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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I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.
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And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.
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Certain unique books seem to be without forerunners or successors as far as their authors are concerned. Even though they may profoundly influence the work of other writers, for their creator they're complete, not leading anywhere.
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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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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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Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
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I could marry the Devil himself if he had some money.
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The Devil's out of fashion.
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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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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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Oh, it is wonderful to wake up in the morning with things to look forward to!
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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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I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.
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Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?
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Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness.
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