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.
Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper. - Dodie Smith
Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.
- Dodie Smith
Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them. - Dodie Smith
Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.
The key to all knowledge comes in words of just one syllable, apparently.... There's only the last page left to write on. I'll fill it with words of … - Dodie Smith
The key to all knowledge comes in words of just one syllable, apparently.... There's only the last page left to write on. I'll fill it with words of …
If you love people, you take them on trust. - Dodie Smith
If you love people, you take them on trust.
I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious. - Dodie Smith
I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious.
Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing. - Dodie Smith
Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.
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 livi… - Dodie Smith
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 livi…
...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
...I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.
The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to. - Dodie Smith
The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.
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