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Death is too much to ask of the living.

Dodie Smith

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Dodie Smith
Age: 94 †
Born: 1896
Born: May 3
Died: 1990
Died: November 24
Autobiographer
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Whitefield
Greater Manchester
Charles Henry Percy
C. L. Anthony
Dorothy Gladys Smith
Dorothy Gladys Beesley
Dorothy Beesley
Dodie Beesley
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Death
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Grief

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Walking down Belmotte was the oddest sensation-- every step took us deeper into the mist until at last it closed over our heads. It was like being drowned in the ghost of water.
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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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... 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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I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.
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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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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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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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Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness.
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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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People's clothes ought to be buried with them.
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The tea was a comfort - and by that time I more than needed comfort.
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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.
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If you love people, you take them on trust.
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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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So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy.
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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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