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Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
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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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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I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.
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Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness.
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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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... 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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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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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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Oh, it is wonderful to wake up in the morning with things to look forward to!
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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 write this sitting in the kitchen sink.
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Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh!
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So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy.
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It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.
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Oh, wise young judge.
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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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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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Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes.
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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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Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.
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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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