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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 it would really be rather dull to be married and settled for life. Liar! It would be heaven.
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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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Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes.
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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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Certain unique books seem to be without forerunners or successors as far as their authors are concerned. Even though they may profoundly influence the work of other writers, for their creator they're complete, not leading anywhere.
Dodie Smith
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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I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.
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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 have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.
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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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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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Death is too much to ask of the living.
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People's clothes ought to be buried with them.
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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.
Dodie Smith
I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things?
Dodie Smith
I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.
Dodie Smith
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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Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.
Dodie Smith
It's odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it. It makes it easier to think rather private thoughts.
Dodie Smith
I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.
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