Dodie Smith Quotes

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

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• I think it is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt.

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

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• There is something revolting about the way girls’ minds often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.

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

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

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• I have noticed that when things happen in one’s imaginings, they never happen in one’s life.

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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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• 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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Birth:	3rd May, 1896
Death:	24th November, 1990
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Novelist, Playwright

About

Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith was born in Whitefield, Lancashire, England. She was an English novelist and playwright. Smith is best known for her novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians. Her other works include I Capture the Castle and The Starlight Barking. She wrote her first play, Autumn Crocus, during 1931 using the pseudonym C.L. Anthony. Smith's fourth play Call it a Day was acted by the Theatre Guild on 28 January 1936 and ran for 194 performances. Her next play Bonnet over the Windmill, was not as successful.

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