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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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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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Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.
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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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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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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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I'm convinced England's overflowing with eccentric people, places, happenings. Indeed, you might say eccentricity's normal in England.
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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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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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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
Faith Baldwin
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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