Dodie Smith Short Quotes

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Perhaps what you call conventionality, I call decency.

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

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Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.

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Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

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I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.

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

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

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Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

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

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

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Extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery.

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

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

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

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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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Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Surely I could give him—a sort of contentment... That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver.

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

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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 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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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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