"Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle."
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Dodie Smith quotes (page 5 of 5)
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"Oh, wise young judge."
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"Oh, it is wonderful to wake up in the morning with things to look forward to!"
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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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"Perhaps it would really be rather dull to be married and settled for life. Liar! It would be heaven."
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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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"Death is too much to ask of the living."
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"Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness."
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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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"If you love people, you take them on trust."
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"I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious."
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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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"Many dogs can understand almost every word humans say, while humans seldom learn to recognize more than half a dozen barks, if that. And barks are only a small part of the dog language. A wagging tail can mean so many things. Humans know that it means a dog is pleased, but not what a dog is saying about his pleasedness."
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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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"...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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"Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper."
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