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Katherine Mansfield [1888-1923] New Zealander

Rank: 101
Poet (with poems), Short story writer

Modernism, Symbolism, National

Kathleen Mansfield Murry was a prominent New Zealand modernist short story writer who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield.

Change, Alone, Attitude, Friendship, Truth

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.		101
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.	Attitude, Change	102
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.		103
If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.		104
It'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.	Alone	105
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.	Friendship	106
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.	Truth	107
I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face.		108
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.		109
Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.	Change	110
I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.		111
Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order.		112
When 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.		113
It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.		114
What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.		115
I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.		116
Would 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.		117
Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.		118
This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment.		119
I'm a writer first and a woman after.		120
Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.		121
Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.		122

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