Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
About Dodie Smith
Dorothy Gladys “Dodie” Smithwas an English novelist and playwright. She is best known for writing I Capture the Castleand the children’s novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians (1956).
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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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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.
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