Dodie Smith Quotes - Page 4

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• Stew's so comforting on a rainy day.

  Dodie Smith

  Rainy Day, Comforting, Rainy

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

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

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  England, Seems

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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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• 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 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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• ... 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The tea was a comfort - and by that time I more than needed comfort.

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  Tea, Comfort, Needed

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.321, 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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• 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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• 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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• How can a young man like to wear a beard?

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  Men, Beard, Young

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.74, St. Martin's Griffin

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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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• Rose doesn’t like the flat country, but I always did – flat country seems to give the sky such a chance.

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  Country, Sky, Giving

  Dodie Smith (2012). “I Capture the Castle”, p.43, Random House

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

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  Art, Thinking, Communion

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

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• I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things?

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  Money, Doe, Wonder

  Dodie Smith (2012). “I Capture the Castle”, p.326, 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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