Dodie Smith Quotes

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

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I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame.

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And at last father flung the rug off as if it were hampering him and strode over to the table saying, 'cocoa, cocoa!'— it might have been the most magnificent drink in the world; which, personally, I think it is.

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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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I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.

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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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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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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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With stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down.

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Perhaps what you call conventionality, I call decency.

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

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

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