Dodie Smith Quotes
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Death is too much to ask of the living.
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Though he had very little Latin beyond "Cave canem," he had, as a young dog, devoured Shakespeare (in a tasty leather binding).
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What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?
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Ham with mustard is a meal of glory
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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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Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.
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What a tiny list of friends I have! All my fault. I less and less want to see people.
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Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
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When things mean a very great deal to you, exciting anticipation just isn't safe.
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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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Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
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Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.
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I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.
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Oh, wise young judge.
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Was I the only woman in the world who, at my age - and after a lifetime of quite rampant independence - still did not…
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I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious...
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Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.
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People's clothes ought to be buried with them.
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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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And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.
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