Dodie Smith Quotes

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Extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery.

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

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

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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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Oh, it is wonderful to wake up in the morning with things to look forward to!

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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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The tea was a comfort - and by that time I more than needed comfort.

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I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious.

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Americans do seem to say things which make the English notice England.

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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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I found it quite easy to carry on a casual conversation it was as if my real feelings were down fathoms deep in my mind and what we said was just a feathery surface spray.

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I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.

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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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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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Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.

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I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.

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Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.

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I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.

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A loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation.

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And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.

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Perhaps what you call conventionality, I call decency.

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I have noticed that rooms which are extra clean feel extra cold.

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I know all about the facts of life, and I don't think much of them.

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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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Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.

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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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He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. "Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die—and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.

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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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