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3cd07a0 There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love. Dodie Smith
6f11b38 Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression. depression deeds Dodie Smith
2d3a2e5 How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel! Dodie Smith
15f4a51 I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea. millionaires honey tea Dodie Smith
67a8b63 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. reading reading-books Dodie Smith
4127eb2 I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life. life write Dodie Smith
1203176 Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can. suffering Dodie Smith
83cfd51 I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. Dodie Smith
47a3605 Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad? mist summer Dodie Smith
9875d34 Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing. luxury Dodie Smith
b6a94f3 I like seeing people when they can't see me. seeing Dodie Smith
b03381c I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness. young Dodie Smith (Cassandra Mortmain I Capture the Castle)
ff0871a Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper. paper Dodie Smith
d70fd53 Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me. Dodie Smith
b1b642e I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself. Dodie Smith
4c4e6b8 And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate. money Dodie Smith
e743aed Only the margin left to write on now. I love you, I love you, I love you. Dodie Smith
2d5e4a8 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. Dodie Smith
ed5e4ea He stood staring into the wood for a minute, then said: "What is it about the English countryside -- why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?" He sounded faintly sad. Perhaps he finds beauty saddening -- I do myself sometimes. Once when I was quite little I asked father why this was and he explained that it was due to our knowledge of beauty's evanescence, which reminds us that we ourselves shall die. Then he sa.. nature england Dodie Smith
c8ad6fc I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious... Dodie Smith
b9bb7cd It is rather exciting to write by moonlight. write Dodie Smith
04b239e Ah, but you're the insidious type--Jane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous girl. jane-eyre Dodie Smith
bcabf73 Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness. truth Dodie Smith
e95e88b 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? Dodie Smith
a397595 So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy. melancholy Dodie Smith
1968f5b I have noticed that rooms which are extra clean feel extra cold Dodie Smith
da409b3 I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer. Dodie Smith
d5c006c It's odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it. It makes it easier to think rather private thoughts... Dodie Smith
97e5645 Rose doesn't like the flat country, but I always did - flat country seems to give the sky such a chance. flat-country sky Dodie Smith
1b7aca7 There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. marriage Dodie Smith
d7dc4ce 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. jane-austen marriage Dodie Smith
b014dc9 I know all about the facts of life, and I don't think much of them. Dodie Smith
3acf782 I wanted so terribly to be good to him. unrequited-love Dodie Smith
8ff232f I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things? Dodie Smith
6d14af0 If you love people, you take them on trust. Dodie Smith
c60bb2a Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real. Dodie Smith
4d6a830 Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle. fate Dodie Smith
ac8c9c1 The Devil's out of fashion. fashion Dodie Smith
3471eee I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt. religion Dodie Smith
9c111e5 My imagination longs to dash ahead and plan developments; but I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself. Dodie Smith
9385df5 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. Dodie Smith
217eb76 Stew's so comforting on a rainy day. rainy-day stew Dodie Smith
04e5cb5 I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame... drama Dodie Smith
c97d0cd for I know I shall be interrupted-- I shall want to be, really, because life is too exciting to sit still for long. Dodie Smith
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