Dodie Smith Quotes - Page 4

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

  Dodie Smith

  Art, Thinking, Communion

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

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• I have noticed that rooms which are extra clean feel extra cold

  Dodie Smith

  Rooms, Cold, Clean

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.63, St. Martin's Griffin

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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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  Long, Want, Life Is

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

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• Perhaps what you call conventionality, I call decency.

  Dodie Smith

  Conventionality, Decency

  Dodie Smith (1963). “The New Moon with the Old”

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• And who says you always have to understand things? You can like them without understanding them -- like 'em better sometimes.

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  Understanding, Ems, Sometimes

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.336, St. Martin's Griffin

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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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  Sweet, Flower, Past

  Dodie Smith (2012). “I Capture the Castle”, p.183, Random House

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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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  Liars, Heaven, Would Be

  Dodie Smith (2012). “I Capture the Castle”, p.565, Random House

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• And at last father flung the rug off as if it were hampering him and strode over to the table saying, 'cocoa, cocoa!'-- it might have been the most magnificent drink in the world; which, personally, I think it is.

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  Father, Thinking, World

  Dodie Smith (2003). “I Capture the Castle”, p.67, St. Martin's Press

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• Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes.

  Dodie Smith

  Reading, Musician, Paper

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• 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

  Love, Luxury, Return

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.255, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh!

  Dodie Smith

  Elderly, Expression, Age

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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.

  Dodie Smith

  Real, Past, Thinking

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.265, St. Martin's Griffin

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• ...surely I could give him--a sort of contentment... That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver.

  Dodie Smith

  Giving, Contentment, Enough

  Dodie Smith (2012). “I Capture the Castle”, p.564, Random House

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• Ham with mustard is a meal of glory

  Dodie Smith

  Meals, Ham, Glory

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.154, St. Martin's Griffin

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• The Devil's out of fashion.

  Dodie Smith

  Fashion, Devil

  Dodie Smith (2012). “I Capture the Castle”, p.71, Random House

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• How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!

  Dodie Smith

  Wish, Novel, Austen

  Dodie Smith (2011). “I Capture The Castle”, p.30, Random House

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• Oh, wise young judge.

  Dodie Smith

  Wise, Judging, Young

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.388, St. Martin's Griffin

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

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  Beauty, Horror, Turns

  Dodie Smith (2003). “I Capture the Castle”, p.92, St. Martin's Press

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• When things mean a very great deal to you, exciting anticipation just isn't safe.

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  Mean, Safe, Anticipation

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.182, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I'm convinced England's overflowing with eccentric people, places, happenings. Indeed, you might say eccentricity's normal in England.

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  People, Might, Eccentric

  Dodie Smith (1963). “The New Moon with the Old”

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• I wanted so terribly to be good to him.

  Dodie Smith

  Be Good, Wanted

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