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Dodie Smith
"Everything in the least connected with him has value for me; if someone even mentions his name it is like a little present to me-and I long to mention it myself" --
Source : Dodie Smith (2003). “I Capture the Castle”, p.247, St. Martin's Press
Dodie Smith
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“Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.”
“I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.”
“I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.”
“To be a friend takes time, and time is what nobody has. Therefore, real friends are rare.”
Source : Robert Massie; Suzanne Massie (1975). “Journey”
“Having an identity at work separate from an identity at home means that the work role can help absorb some of the emotional shock of domestic distress. Even a mediocre performance at the office can help a person repair self-esteem damaged in domestic battles.”
Source : Faye J. Crosby (1993). “Juggling: the unexpected advantages of balancing career and home for women and their families”, Touchstone
“In fact, if you are faced with the prospect of running across an open field in which lightning bolts are going to be a problem, you are much better off if their timing and location are determined by something, since then they may be predictable by you, and hence avoidable. Determinism is the friend, not the foe, of those who dislike inevitability.”
“It's an unusual opportunity, a chance for so many people to share in the excitement and the fun of the fact that we may be on to hints as to what the Universe is made out of. I guess the whole point of a prize like this is to be able to get that out into the community”
“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one. What is most repellent in the System of Nature - after the recipe for making eels from flour - is the audacity with which it decides that there is no God, without even having tried the impossibility. If God did not exist, he would have to be invented." But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.”
