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I'm a writer first and a woman after.

Katherine Mansfield

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Katherine Mansfield
Age: 34 †
Born: 1888
Born: October 14
Died: 1923
Died: January 9
Diarist
Poet
Writer
Wellington
New Zealand
Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry
Kathleen Murry
Katherine Beauchamp Mansfield
Kathleen Mansfield Murry
Writer
Woman
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Courage is like a disobedient dog, once it starts running away it flies all the faster for your attempts to recall it.
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You might drop your heart into me and you'd never hear it touch bottom.
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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.
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Regret is an appalling waste of time.
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Tidied all my papers. Tore up and ruthlessly destroyed much. This is always a great satisfaction.
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The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.... This all sounds very strenuous and serious. But now that I have wrestled with it, it's no longer so. I feel happy- deep down. All is well.
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Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.
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You are a Queen. Let mine be the joy of giving you your kingdom.
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Who is to decide between 'Let it be' and 'Force it'?
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In the shortest sea voyage there is no sense of time. You have been down in the cabin for hours or days or years. Nobody knows or cares. You know all the people to the point of indifference. You do not believe in dry land any more - you are caught in the pendulum itself, and left there, idly swinging.
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Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
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I am a recluse at present & do nothing but write & read & read & write
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The late evening is the time of times. Then with that unearthly beauty before one it is not hard to realise how far one has to go. To write something that will be worthy of that rising moon, that pale light.
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In fact, isn't it a joy - there is hardly a greater one - to find a new book, a living book, and to know that it will remain with you while life lasts?
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Ach, Tchekov! Why are you dead? Why can’t I talk to you in a big darkish room at late evening—where the light is green from the waving trees outside? I’d like to write a series of Heavens: that would be one.
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That's all life is - something childish and very natural. Isn't it?
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The truth is friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage.
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It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
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There is no feeling to be compared with the feeling of having written and finished a story.
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