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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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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
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Dodie Smith
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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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