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Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith was an English children's novelist and playwright, known best for the novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians . Other works include I Capture the Castle , and The Starlight Barking . 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 adapted into a 2003 movie version. 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 . Wikipedia  

✵ 3. May 1896 – 24. November 1990

Works

I Capture the Castle
Dodie Smith: 49 quotes3 likes

Famous Dodie Smith Quotes

“I like seeing people when they can't see me.”

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

“And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.”

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

“I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame…”

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

“The Devil's out of fashion.”

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Source: I Capture the Castle

Dodie Smith Quotes about thinking

“I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.”

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

“Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever.”

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

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

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

“It's odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it. It makes it easier to think rather private thoughts…”

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

“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.”

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

Dodie Smith Quotes about love

“Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.”

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

“If you love people, you take them on trust.”

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Source: I Capture the Castle

“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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“There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love.”

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

Dodie Smith Quotes

“How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!”

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

“When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don't suppose many people try to do it.”

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

“I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.”

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Source: I Capture the Castle

“Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?”

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Source: I Capture the Castle

“Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.”

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Source: I Capture the Castle

“… I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.”

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Source: I Capture the Castle

“Oh, it is wonderful to wake up in the morning with things to look forward to!”

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Source: I Capture the Castle

“I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious…”

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Source: I Capture the Castle

“Ah, but you're the insidious type--Jane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous girl.”

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Source: I Capture the Castle

“It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.”

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Source: I Capture the Castle

“Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness.”

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Source: I Capture the Castle

“Was I the only woman in the world who, at my age - and after a lifetime of quite rampant independence - still did not quite feel grown up?”

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Source: The Town in Bloom

“I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.”

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Source: I Capture the Castle

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

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

“But some characters in books are really real--Jane Austen's are; and I know those five Bennets at the opening of Pride and Prejudice, simply waiting to raven the young men at Netherfield Park, are not giving one thought to the real facts of marriage.”

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Source: I Capture the Castle

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

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

“I wanted so terribly to be good to him.”

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Source: I Capture the Castle

“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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Source: I Capture the Castle

“My imagination longs to dash ahead and plan developments; but I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.”

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

“… 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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Source: I Capture the Castle

“Stew's so comforting on a rainy day.”

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

“I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring - I wrote my very best poem while sitting on the hen-house.”

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

“I found it quite easy to carry on a casual conversation it was as if my real feelings were down fathoms deep in my mind and what we said was just a feathery surface spray.”

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

“… surely I could give him--a sort of contentment…

That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver.”

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

“Certain unique books seem to be without forerunners or successors as far as their authors are concerned. Even though they may profoundly influence the work of other writers, for their creator they're complete, not leading anywhere.”

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

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