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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
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Dodie Smith
writer, autobiographer, novelist, playwright, screenwriter, children's writer, television writer, film screenwriter
🔗 Read on Wikipedia1896 – 1990
Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith was an English novelist and playwright. She is best known for writing I Capture the Castle (1948) and the children's novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians (1956). Other works include Dear Octopus (1938) and The Starlight Barking (1967). The Hundred and One Dalmatians was adapted into a 1961 animated film and a 1996 live-action film, both produced by Disney. Her novel I Capture the Castle was voted number 82 as "one of the nation's 100 best-loved novels" by the British public as part of the BBC's The Big Read (2003), and was adapted into a film released the same year.
All Quotes by Dodie Smith
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Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
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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
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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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Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
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The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to.
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Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness.
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