Katherine Mansfield's Quotes
Born: 1970-01-01
Profession: Author
Nation: New Zealander
Biography of Katherine Mansfield
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Tags: Friendship, Great, HighIf only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.
Tags: Love, Tell, TrueRisk! 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.
Tags: Care, Truth, YourselfMake 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.
Tags: Good, Life, RegretCould we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
Tags: Attitude, Change, LifeI want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
Tags: Capable, Others, UnderstandOnce we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
Tags: Learned, Once, WordsThe pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Tags: Another, Lives, ReadingWhat do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.
Tags: Asking, Face, KeepIt's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask.
Tags: Alone, Another, UntilLooking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.
Tags: Far, Write, WritingSome couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.
Tags: Couples, Month, OthersWhenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order.
Tags: Death, Order, ThoughWould 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.
Tags: Small, Try, WritingWhen we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
Tags: Afraid, Laugh, Learn