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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
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Playwright
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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 write this sitting in the kitchen sink.
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Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.
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Oh, it is wonderful to wake up in the morning with things to look forward to!
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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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Ah, but you're the insidious type--Jane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous girl.
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Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
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Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh!
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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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...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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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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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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I wanted to know more about the young ... strange that though they laughed so loud, they so seldom smiled. Perhaps laughter was involuntary whereas smiling was part of an attitude to life.
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The Devil's out of fashion.
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The tea was a comfort - and by that time I more than needed comfort.
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Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness.
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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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How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!
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Rose doesn’t like the flat country, but I always did – flat country seems to give the sky such a chance.
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Oh, comfortable cocoa!
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