Dodie Smith
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"Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith" was an English novelist and playwright. Smith is best known for her novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians. Her other works include I Capture the Castle and The Starlight Barking.

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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.

When things mean a very great deal to you, exciting anticipation just isn't safe.

I don't like the sound of all those lists he's making - it's like taking too many notes at school; you feel you've achieved something when you haven't.

The family-that dear octopus from whese tentacles we never quite escape nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life.

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.

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