quotes by Katherine Mansfield

"The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books."
— Katherine Mansfield

"“Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others… Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.”"
— Katherine Mansfield

"I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship, was that one had to explain nothing"
— Katherine Mansfield

"The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind."
— Katherine Mansfield

"I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was, too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all."
— Katherine Mansfield

"When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them."
— Katherine Mansfield

"For the special thrilling quality of their friendship was in their complete surrender. Like two open cities in the midst of some vast plain their two minds lay open to each other. And it wasn't as if he rode into hers like a conqueror, armed to the eyebrows and seeing nothing but a gay silken flutter--nor did she enter his like a queen walking on soft petals. No, they were eager, serious travellers, absorbed in understanding what was to be seen and discovering what was hidden--making the most of this extraordinary absolute chance which made it possible for him to be utterly truthful to her and for her to be utterly sincere with him."
— Katherine Mansfield (The Collected Stories (Penguin Modern Classics))

"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."
— Katherine Mansfield

"Oh, impossible. Fancy cream puffs so soon after breakfast. The very idea made one shudder. All the same, two minutes later Jose and Laura were licking their fingers with that absorbed inward look that only comes from whipped cream. "
— Katherine Mansfield

"Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices.
Do the hardest thing on earth for you.
Act for yourself. Face the truth.
"
— Katherine Mansfield

"Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all."
— Katherine Mansfield