Dodie Smith Quotes - Page 3

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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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• 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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• 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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• Stew's so comforting on a rainy day.

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  Rainy Day, Comforting, Rainy

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.276, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I found it quite easy to carry on a casual conversation it was as if my real feelings were down fathoms deep in my mind and what we said was just a feathery surface spray.

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  Real, Feelings, Mind

  Dodie Smith (2003). “I Capture the Castle”, p.242, St. Martin's Press

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• Prayer's a very tricky business.

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  Prayer, Tricky

  Dodie Smith (2003). “I Capture the Castle”, p.256, St. Martin's Press

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• Topaz was wonderfully patient - but sometimes I wonder if it is not only patience, but also a faint resemblance to cows.

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  Cows, Topaz, Patient

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.83, St. Martin's Griffin

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• He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. "Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die--and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.

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  Long, Insanity, May

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.345, St. Martin's Griffin

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• So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy.

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  England, Melancholy

  Dodie Smith (2003). “I Capture the Castle”, p.370, St. Martin's Press

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• Only half a page left now. Shall I fill it with 'I love you, I love you'-- like father's page of cats on the mat? No. Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.

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  Father, Love You, Heart

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

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• I could hear rain still pouring from the gutters and a thin branch scraping against one of the windows; but the church seemed completely cut off from the restless day outside--just as I felt cut off from the church. I thought: I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.

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  Rain, Cutting, Church

  Dodie Smith (2011). “I Capture The Castle”, p.282, Random House

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• ...With stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down.

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  Stories, Pages, Flow

  Dodie Smith (2012). “I Capture the Castle”, p.41, Random House

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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.

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  Real, Past, Thinking

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

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• I know all about the facts of life, and I don't think much of them.

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  Thinking, Facts, Facts Of Life

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

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• Americans do seem to say things which make the English notice England.

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  England, Seems

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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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• ... 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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• We were restless for ages...After a while I heard an owl hooting and calmed myself by thinking of it flying over the dark fields – and then I remembered it would be pouncing on mice. I love owls, but I wish God had made them vegetarian.

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  Love, Dark, Thinking

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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.

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  Love, Luxury, Return

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

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• I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame.

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  Shame, Repent, Pauses

  Dodie Smith (2012). “I Capture the Castle”, p.419, Random House

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• I should rather like to tear these last pages out of the book. Shall I? No-a journal ought not to cheat.

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  Book, Tears, Pages

  Dodie Smith (2012). “I Capture the Castle”, p.174, Random House

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• Am I really admitting that my sister is determined to marry a man she has only seen once and doesn't much like the look of? It is half real and half pretense - and I have an idea that it is a game most girls play when they meet an eligible young men. They just...wonder.

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  Girl, Real, Men

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• Father says hot water can be as stimulating as an alcoholic drink and though I never come by one...I can well believe it.

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  Father, Believe, Water

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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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