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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.
Katherine Mansfield
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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
Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry
Kathleen Murry
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Kathleen Mansfield Murry
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Better to write twaddle, anything, than nothing at all.
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Life never become a habit to me. It's always a marvel.
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To long for everything: sorrow to accept everything: joy.
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I am a recluse at present & do nothing but write & read & read & write
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There are always these moments in life when the limits of suffering are reached and we become heroes and heroines.
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The ostrich burying its head in the sand does at any rate wish to convey the impression that its head is the most important part of it.
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Yes, my mother's death is a terrible sorrow to me. I feel - do you know what I mean - the silence of it so. She was more alive than anyone I have ever known.
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Winter is a terrible time for thin people - terrible! Why should it hound them down, fasten on them, worry them so? Why not, for a change, take a nip, take a snap at the fat ones who wouldn't notice? But no! It is sleek, warm, cat-like summer that makes the fat one's life a misery. Winter is all for bones.
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Tidied all my papers. Tore up and ruthlessly destroyed much. This is always a great satisfaction.
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September is different from all other months. It is more magical. I feel the strange chemical change in the earth which produces mushrooms is the cause, too, of the extra 'life' in the air - a resilience, a sparkle.
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Whatever happens I have had these blissful, perfect moments and they are worth living for.
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The truth is friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage.
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