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I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt.

Dodie Smith

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Dodie Smith
Age: 94 †
Born: 1896
Born: May 3
Died: 1990
Died: November 24
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Greater Manchester
Charles Henry Percy
C. L. Anthony
Dorothy Gladys Smith
Dorothy Gladys Beesley
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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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How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!
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I could marry the Devil himself if he had some money.
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I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.
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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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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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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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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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I have noticed that rooms which are extra clean feel extra cold
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Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness.
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I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.
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Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
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Death is too much to ask of the living.
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Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh!
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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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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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Ah, but you're the insidious type--Jane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous girl.
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People's clothes ought to be buried with them.
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And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.
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