Dodie Smith Quotes

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• Death is too much to ask of the living.
• Though he had very little Latin beyond "Cave canem," he had, as a young dog, devoured Shakespeare (in a tasty leather binding).
• What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?
• Ham with mustard is a meal of glory
• It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns.
• Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.
• What a tiny list of friends I have! All my fault. I less and less want to see people.
• Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
• When things mean a very great deal to you, exciting anticipation just isn't safe.
• I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.
• Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
• Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.
• I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.
• Oh, wise young judge.
• Was I the only woman in the world who, at my age - and after a lifetime of quite rampant independence - still did not…
• I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious...
• Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.
• People's clothes ought to be buried with them.
• Ah, but you're the insidious type--Jane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous girl.
• And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.

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