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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
Autobiographer
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
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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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I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame.
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Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
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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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... 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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Only the margin left to write on now. I love you, I love you, I love you.
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Oh, it is wonderful to wake up in the morning with things to look forward to!
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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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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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Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness.
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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 tea was a comfort - and by that time I more than needed comfort.
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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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I could marry the Devil himself if he had some money.
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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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Stew's so comforting on a rainy day.
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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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...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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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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Walking down Belmotte was the oddest sensation-- every step took us deeper into the mist until at last it closed over our heads. It was like being drowned in the ghost of water.
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