Dodie Smith Quotes - Page 2

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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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  Love You, Writing, Margins

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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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• Death is too much to ask of the living.

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  Grief, Too Much, Asks

  Dodie Smith (2012). “The Town in Bloom”, p.199, Hachette UK

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• People's clothes ought to be buried with them.

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  Clothes, People, Buried

  Dodie Smith (2003). “I Capture the Castle”, p.86, St. Martin's Press

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• 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 said I was probably too young to understand him; but I understood perfectly.

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  Father, Doe, Littles

  Dodie Smith, Frances Hodgson Burnett (2012). “Stop What You’re Doing and Read…To Your Daughter: I Capture the Castle & The Secret Garden”, p.123, Random House

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

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  Rooms, Cold, Clean

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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