Dodie Smith Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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 inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.”
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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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“People's clothes ought to be buried with them.”
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“I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.”
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“I like seeing people when they can't see me.”
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“Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.”
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“I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.”
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“Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?”
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“I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.”
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“Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.”
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“But some characters in books are really real--Jane Austen's are; and I know those five Bennets at the opening of Pride and Prejudice, simply waiting to raven the young men at Netherfield Park, are not giving one thought to the real facts of marriage.”
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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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“Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.”
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“Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.”
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“When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don't suppose many people try to do it.”
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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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“Oh, it is wonderful to wake up in the morning with things to look forward to!”
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“If you love people, you take them on trust.”
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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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“I know all about the facts of life, and I don't think much of them.”
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“Americans do seem to say things which make the English notice England.”
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“Walking down Belmotte was the oddest sensation-- every step took us deeper into the mist until at last it closed over our heads. It was like being drowned in the ghost of water.”
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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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“So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy.”
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“They call them the haunted shores, these stretches of Devonshire and Cornwall and Ireland which rear up against the westward ocean. Mists gather here, and sea fog, and eerie stories. That's not because there are more ghosts here than in other places, mind you. It's just that people who live hereabouts are strangely aware of them.”
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“Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes.”
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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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“a loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation.”
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