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Better to write twaddle, anything, than nothing at all.

Katherine Mansfield

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Katherine Mansfield
Age: 34 †
Born: 1888
Born: October 14
Died: 1923
Died: January 9
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Poet
Writer
Wellington
New Zealand
Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry
Kathleen Murry
Katherine Beauchamp Mansfield
Kathleen Mansfield Murry
Nothing
Writing
Twaddle
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Anything
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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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Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.
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That's all life is - something childish and very natural. Isn't it?
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I love the night. I love to feel the tide of darkness rising, slowly and slowly washing, turning over and over, lifting, floating, all that lies strewn upon the dark beach, all that lies hid in rocky hollows.
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You have never been curious about me you never wanted to explore my soul.
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if one really does try to find out why it is that people don't leave each other, one discovers a mystery. It is because they can't they are bound. And nobody on earth knows what are the bonds that bind them except those two.
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Life never become a habit to me. It's always a marvel.
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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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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?
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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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In the woods where snow is thick, bars of sunlight lay like pale fire.
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Wind moving through grass so that the grass quivers. This moves me with an emotion I don't even understand.
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Do the hardest thing on earth for you. ACT YOURSELF.
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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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I think I hate snow, downright hate it. There is something stupefying in it, a kind of 'You must be worse before you're better,' and down it spins.
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Perhaps it does not matter so very much what it is one loves in this world. But love something one must.
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What happiness it is to listen to rain at night joyful relief, ease a lapping-round and hushing and brooding tenderness, all are mingled together in the sound of the fast-falling rain. God, looking down upon the rainy earth, sees how faint are these lights shining in little windows, - how easily put out.
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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.
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