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== [[Literature]] ==
* When judging her beauty, Mary in ''[[Wives and Daughters]]'' looks in her mirror and instantly feels better when she sees "the gleam of her teeth and the charm of her dimples".
* Scarlett in ''[[Gone with the Wind (novel)|Gone with the Wind]]'' exploits this trope by consciously smiling demurely at potential suitors to show her dimple off. Rhett is the only man who notices this, later confronting her when she tries to involve herself in conflicts considered out of her depth, and tells her to stick to what she knows: dances and dimples.
* Conversed in this exchange from [[Dean Koontz]]'s ''Deeply Odd'':
{{quote|'''Odd Thomas:''' It's funny, ma'am, how sometimes you're so sarcastic but it doesn't sting.
'''Edie:''' Because of my dimples. Dimples are a get-out-of-jail-free card.}}
* The eponymous Anne of ''[[Anne of Green Gables]]'' wishes she had dimpled cheeks like Diana, and compliments
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