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I don't believe other people are ever as foolishly excited as I am while I'm working. How could they be? Writers would have to live in trees.

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Katherine Mansfield
Age: 34 †
Born: 1888
Born: October 14
Died: 1923
Died: January 9
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Wellington
New Zealand
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