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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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Dodie Smith
Age: 94 †
Born: 1896
Born: May 3
Died: 1990
Died: November 24
Autobiographer
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Whitefield
Greater Manchester
Charles Henry Percy
C. L. Anthony
Dorothy Gladys Smith
Dorothy Gladys Beesley
Dorothy Beesley
Dodie Beesley
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Love

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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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The tea was a comfort - and by that time I more than needed comfort.
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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 have noticed that rooms which are extra clean feel extra cold
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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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I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.
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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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I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.
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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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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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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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It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.
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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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Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever.
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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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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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... 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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And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.
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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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