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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
Beauty
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Time
Ugliness
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Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?
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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 shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.
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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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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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Death is too much to ask of the living.
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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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Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
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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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What a tiny list of friends I have! All my fault. I less and less want to see people.
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So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy.
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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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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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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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Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.
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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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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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But some characters in books are really real--Jane Austen's are and I know those five Bennets at the opening of Pride and Prejudice, simply waiting to raven the young men at Netherfield Park, are not giving one thought to the real facts of marriage.
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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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