I was so happy that I wanted to be kind to everyone in the world.

—Dodie Smith in I Capture the Castle

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About Dodie Smith

Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith (3 May 1896 – 24 November 1990) was an English novelist and playwright. She is best known for writing I Capture the Castle (1948) and the children's novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians (1956). Other works include Dear Octopus (1938) and The Starlight Barking (1967). The...

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All I really want to write about is what happened just before he left. But if I let myself start with that I might forget some of the things which came first. And every word he said is of deepest value to me.

—Dodie Smith in I Capture the Castle

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

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It is wonderful to wake up in the morning with things to look forward to.

—Dodie Smith in I Capture the Castle

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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 Smith in I Capture the Castle

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People with a grudge against the world are always dangerous. They seem to think life owes them something. I’ve known many who have suffered worse and been cut off from life much more… and they’ve managed to lead happy contented lives. It’s what’s in yourself that makes you happy or unhappy.

—Agatha Christie in A Murder Is Announced

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It is the virtue and the pathos of man that he aspires endlessly toward a better world; it is his weakness and his tragedy that he does nothing to bring such a world even one step nearer.

—Ludwig Lewisohn

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We’re making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality.

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“You’re better equipped for this world than I am,” she said. “I’m always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.”

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The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion, and the tyranny of the dull mind forever threatens—but our lives are not as limited as we think they are, all things are possible, laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it’s love and love alone that really matters.

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