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Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.

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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Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.
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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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Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
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Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return -- that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness. For a moment I felt that I had discovered a great truth.
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Oh, comfortable cocoa!
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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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What a tiny list of friends I have! All my fault. I less and less want to see people.
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I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.
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