Dodie Smith Quotes - Page 2

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• I like seeing people when they can't see me.

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  People, Seeing

  Dodie Smith (2012). “I Capture the Castle”, p.103, Random House

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• It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.

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  Writing, Moonlight, Exciting

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.28, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Everything in the least connected with him has value for me; if someone even mentions his name it is like a little present to me-and I long to mention it myself

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  Names, Long, Littles

  Dodie Smith (2003). “I Capture the Castle”, p.247, St. Martin's Press

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• Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?

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  Summer, Autumn, Mist

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.390, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness.

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  Ruthlessness, Truthfulness

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.260, St. Martin's Griffin

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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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  Beautiful, Thinking, Long

  Dodie Smith (2003). “I Capture the Castle”, p.83, St. Martin's Press

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

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  Morning, Looks, Wake Up

  Dodie Smith (2003). “I Capture the Castle”, p.119, St. Martin's Press

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• It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns.

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  Beautiful, Simple, Sight

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

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  Writing, Ifs

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.214, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.

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  Stillness, Restlessness

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.270, St. Martin's Griffin

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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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  Real, Book, Character

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.65, St. Martin's Griffin

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

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  Loss, Innocence, Penalties

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• Wakings are the worst times--almost before my eyes are open a great weight seems to roll on my heart.

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  Heart, Eye, Worst Times

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.264, St. Martin's Griffin

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• It's odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it. It makes it easier to think rather private thoughts.

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  Thinking, House, Different

  Dodie Smith (2012). “I Capture the Castle”, p.172, Random House

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• My hand is very tired but I want to go on writing. I keep resting and thinking. All day I have been two people - the me imprisoned in yesterday and the me out here on the mound; and now there is a third me trying to get in - the me in what is going to happen next.

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  Writing, Tired, Thinking

  Dodie Smith (2012). “I Capture the Castle”, p.153, Random House

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• I wanted to know more about the young ... strange that though they laughed so loud, they so seldom smiled. Perhaps laughter was involuntary whereas smiling was part of an attitude to life.

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  Laughter, Attitude, Strange

  Dodie Smith (2012). “The Town in Bloom”, p.200, Hachette UK

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• The one Bach piece I learnt made me feel I was being repeatedly hit on the head with a teaspoon.

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  Pieces, Made, Feels

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.249, St. Martin's Griffin

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

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  Kindness, Fate, Blow

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.85, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.

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  Writing, Kitchen, Sitting

  Dodie Smith (2012). “I Capture the Castle”, Random House

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• Though he had very little Latin beyond "Cave canem," he had, as a young dog, devoured Shakespeare (in a tasty leather binding).

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  Dog, Latin, Training

  Dodie Smith (1989). “101 Dalmatians”, p.21, Penguin

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• Certain unique books seem to be without forerunners or successors as far as their authors are concerned. Even though they may profoundly influence the work of other writers, for their creator they're complete, not leading anywhere.

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  Book, Unique, May

  Dodie Smith (2012). “I Capture the Castle”, p.97, Random House

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• extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery.

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  Misery, Extremes, Invites

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.266, St. Martin's Griffin

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• 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.

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  Believe, Ideas, Brain

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.56, St. Martin's Griffin

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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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  Water, Lasts, Steps

  Dodie Smith (2012). “I Capture the Castle”, p.355, Random House

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

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  Hate, Men, Funny Marriage

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.149, St. Martin's Griffin

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