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Dodie Smith

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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.


— Dodie Smith


#i-capture-the-castle #humor

... there is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.


— Dodie Smith


#love

Oh I daresay she can't help it - she's one of the women who oughn't be loved too kindly when they are some primitive desire for brutality makes them try to provoke it.


— Dodie Smith


#love

... And they are like a drug, one needs them oftener and oftener and has to make them more and more exciting - until at last one's imagination won't work at all.


— Dodie Smith


#imagination

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.


— Dodie Smith


#love #wisdom #youth #love

It is part of a follow-my-leader game of second-best we have all been playing . . . it isn't a very good game; the people you play it with are apt to get hurt.


— Dodie Smith


#love

Never have I felt so separate from her. And I regret to say that there were moments when my deep and loving pity for her merged into a desire to kick her fairly hard.


— Dodie Smith


#love

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.


— Dodie Smith


#before #jump #long #love #marriage

The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to.


— Dodie Smith


#escape #family #hearts #innermost #never

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


— Dodie Smith


#death #horror #into #out #takes






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Barnes writes of the complicated task in his essay "Literary Executions" revealing among other things how he secured the return of the film rights to I Capture the Castle which had been held by Disney since 1949 Smith's personal papers are housed in Boston University's Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center and include manuscripts photographs artwork and correspondence (including letters from Christopher IDodie Smithrwood and John Gielgud). Its success and the discovery of her identity by journalists inspired the newspaper headline "Shopgirl Writes Play". She and Beesley also spent time in Beverly Hills Malibu and Wilton Connecticut.

Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith (3 May 1896 – 24 November 1990) was an English novelist and playwright. Her other works include I Capture the Castle and The Starlight Barking. Smith is best known for her novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians.

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