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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
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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 am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.
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So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy.
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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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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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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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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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Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness.
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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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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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It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.
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People's clothes ought to be buried with them.
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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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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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Stew's so comforting on a rainy day.
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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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Perhaps it would really be rather dull to be married and settled for life. Liar! It would be heaven.
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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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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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I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt.
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