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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
Ugliness
Horror
Takes
Beauty
Turns
Death
Time

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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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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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Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.
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Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
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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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