I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame...
Dodie SmithTags: drama coming-of-age
I should rather like to tear these last pages out of the book. Shall I? No-a journal ought not to cheat.
Dodie SmithTags: journals
He stood staring into the wood for a minute, then said: "What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?"
He sounded faintly sad. Perhaps he finds beauty saddening — I do myself sometimes. Once when I was quite little I asked father why this was and he explained that it was due to our knowledge of beauty's evanescence, which reminds us that we ourselves shall die. Then he said I was probably too young to understand him; but I understood perfectly.
There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.
Dodie SmithTags: love
Americans do seem to say things which make the English notice England.
Dodie SmithWhen 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 SmithTags: imagination reading reading-books
Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. 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. For a moment I felt that I had discovered a great truth.
Dodie SmithIt came to me that Hyde Park has never belonged to London - that it has always been , in spirit, a stretch of countryside; and that it links the Londons of all periods together most magically - by remaining forever unchanged at the heart of a ever-changing town.
Dodie SmithMy hand is very tired but I want to go on writing. I keep resting and thinking. All day I have been two people - the me imprisoned in yesterday and the me out here on the mound; and now there is a third me trying to get in - the me in what is going to happen next.
Dodie SmithOh, it is wonderful to wake up in the morning with things to look forward to!
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