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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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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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I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt.
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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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Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
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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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The tea was a comfort - and by that time I more than needed comfort.
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Oh, it is wonderful to wake up in the morning with things to look forward to!
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Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes.
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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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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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Death is too much to ask of the living.
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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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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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I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.
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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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How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!
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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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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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