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Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.

Dodie Smith

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Dodie Smith
Age: 94 †
Born: 1896
Born: May 3
Died: 1990
Died: November 24
Autobiographer
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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
Watching
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Suffering
Someone
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Love
Suffer

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Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
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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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... 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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Only the margin left to write on now. I love you, I love you, I love you.
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The Devil's out of fashion.
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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 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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People's clothes ought to be buried with them.
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