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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
Writer
Whitefield
Greater Manchester
Charles Henry Percy
C. L. Anthony
Dorothy Gladys Smith
Dorothy Gladys Beesley
Dorothy Beesley
Dodie Beesley
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Beauty
Turns
Death
Time
Ugliness
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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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Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh!
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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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I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.
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I could marry the Devil himself if he had some money.
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Death is too much to ask of the living.
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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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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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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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Only the margin left to write on now. I love you, I love you, I love you.
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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 have noticed that rooms which are extra clean feel extra cold
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Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.
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If you love people, you take them on trust.
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