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It's odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it. It makes it easier to think rather private thoughts.

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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 quite feel grown up?

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It came to me that Hyde Park has never belonged to London - that it has always been, in spirit, a stretch of countryside; and that it links the Londons of all periods together most magically - by remaining forever unchanged at the heart of a ever-changing town.

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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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One gets, he thought, not what one wants but what one is.

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Everything in the least connected with him has value for me; if someone even mentions his name it is like a little present to me-and I long to mention it myself

Dodie Smith

Dodie Smith

Dodie Smith

Born: May 3, 1896

Died: November 24, 1990 (aged 94)

Bio: Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith was an English children's novelist and playwright, known best for the novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians. Other works include I Capture the Castle, and The Starlight Barking.

Known for:

I Capture the Castle (1948)
The Hundred and One Dalmatians (1956)
The 101 Dalmatians Musical (1957)
The Starlight Barking (1967)
The town in bloom (1965)

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