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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
Turns
Death
Time
Ugliness
Horror
Takes
Beauty

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How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!
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I believe it is customary to get one's washing over first in baths and bask afterwards personally, I bask first. I have discovered that the first few minutes are the best and not to be wasted-- my brain always seethes with ideas and life suddenly looks much better than did.
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It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.
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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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Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.
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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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Father says hot water can be as stimulating as an alcoholic drink and though I never come by one...I can well believe it.
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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 am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.
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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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Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever.
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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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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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Oh, comfortable cocoa!
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