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Katherine Mansfield Quotes

Katherine Mansfield quotes

New zealander Author October 14, 1888 – January 9, 1923

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Katherine Mansfield quote: "Oh, Mother, I do not want any breakfast.'"
Oh, Mother, I do not want any breakfast.' Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield quote: "Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for..."
Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order. Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield quote: "The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with..."
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield quote: "Outside the sky is light with stars"
Outside the sky is light with stars Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield quote: "When she looked through the dark windows at the stars, they..."
When she looked through the dark windows at the stars, they had long beams like wings... Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield quote: "Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month...."
Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them. Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield quote: " A wet night. They are going home together under an umbrella...."
... A wet night. They are going home together under an umbrella. They stop on the door to press their wet cheeks together. Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield quote: "Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow..."
Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness. Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield quote: "To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure."
To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure. Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield quote: "You are a Queen. Let mine be the joy of giving you your kingdom."
You are a Queen. Let mine be the joy of giving you your kingdom. Katherine Mansfield
What is it with me? Am I absolutely nobody, but merely inordinately vain? I do not know…. But I am most fearfully unhappy. That is all. I am so unhappy that I wish I was dead—yet I should be mad to die when I have not yet lived at all. Katherine Mansfield
What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly, by a feeling of bliss - absolute bliss - as though you'd suddenly swallowed a bright piece of that late afternoon sun and it burned in your bosom, sending out a little shower of sparks into every particle into every finger and toe?... Katherine Mansfield
Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people. Katherine Mansfield
I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse. Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield quote: "I am a recluse at present & do nothing but write & read & read..."
I am a recluse at present & do nothing but write & read & read & write Katherine Mansfield

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