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Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

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

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When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don't suppose many people try to do it.
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Death is too much to ask of the living.
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Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever.
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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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I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.
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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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People's clothes ought to be buried with them.
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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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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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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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Stew's so comforting on a rainy day.
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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 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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Ah, but you're the insidious type--Jane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous girl.
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What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?
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It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns.
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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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If you love people, you take them on trust.
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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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So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy.
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