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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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People's clothes ought to be buried with them.
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How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!
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Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.
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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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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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The Devil's out of fashion.
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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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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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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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Many dogs can understand almost every word humans say, while humans seldom learn to recognize more than half a dozen barks, if that. And barks are only a small part of the dog language. A wagging tail can mean so many things. Humans know that it means a dog is pleased, but not what a dog is saying about his pleasedness.
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Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?
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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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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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It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.
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