Dodie Smith Quotes

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There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love.

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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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The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to.

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The family—that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever wish to.

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I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.

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I wanted to know more about the young... strange that though they laughed so loud, they so seldom smiled. Perhaps laughter was involuntary whereas smiling was part of an attitude to life.

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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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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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There was a wonderful atmosphere of gentle age, a smell of flowers and beeswax, sweet yet faintly sour and musty; a smell that makes you feel very tender towards the past.

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Perhaps it would really be rather dull to be married and settled for life. Liar! It would be heaven.

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Many dogs can understand almost every word humans say, while humans seldom learn to recognize more than half a dozen barks, if that. And barks are only a small part of the dog language. A wagging tail can mean so many things. Humans know that it means a dog is pleased, but not what a dog is saying about his pleasedness.

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I'm convinced England's overflowing with eccentric people, places, happenings. Indeed, you might say eccentricity's normal in England.

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When things mean a very great deal to you, exciting anticipation just isn't safe.

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Extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery.

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And who says you always have to understand things? You can like them without understanding them -- like 'em better sometimes.

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Rose doesn't like the flat country, but I always did — flat country seems to give the sky such a chance.

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I found myself thinking it was a bit like my disappointment when I was confirmed. This may be blasphemous but I think not. For expecting to achieve union with God is similar to expecting to achieve it with man. Only I minded much more as regards man.

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My hand is very tired but I want to go on writing. I keep resting and thinking. All day I have been two people - the me imprisoned in yesterday and the me out here on the mound; and now there is a third me trying to get in - the me in what is going to happen next.

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"Why, that's Cruella de Vil," said Mrs. Dearly. "We were at school together. She was expelled for drinking ink."

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I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things?

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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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I should rather like to tear these last pages out of the book. Shall I? No-a journal ought not to cheat.

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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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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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Many people called him a wizard of finance — which is not the same thing as a wizard of magic, though sometimes fairly similar.

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I don't like the sound of all those lists he's making — it's like taking too many notes at school; you feel you've achieved something when you haven't.

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For 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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Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real.

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