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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
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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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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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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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People's clothes ought to be buried with them.
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I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.
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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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Perhaps it would really be rather dull to be married and settled for life. Liar! It would be heaven.
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Death is too much to ask of the living.
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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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I have noticed that rooms which are extra clean feel extra cold
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Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.
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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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It's odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it. It makes it easier to think rather private thoughts.
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I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.
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The Devil's out of fashion.
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Oh, wise young judge.
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The tea was a comfort - and by that time I more than needed comfort.
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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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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 really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame.
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