Dodie Smith

Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith (3 May 1896 – 24 November 1990) was an English novelist and playwright.

• The family—that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape.
  • Dear Octopus (1938)

• [E]xtreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery.
  • , I Capture the Castle (1948), Ch. 13

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