katherine-mansfield Quotes About people

“I thought how true it was that the world was a delightful place if it were not for the people, and how more than true it was that people were not worth troubling about, and that wise men should set their affections upon nothing smaller than cities, heavenly or otherwise, and countrysides which are always heavenly.”

People Cities Introvert Countryside Anti Social

Book:Stories

Source: Stories

“Why it should be such an effort to write to the people one loves I can't imagine. It's none at all to write to those who don't really count.”

People Should Writing I Can Effort Imagine Letters One Love

Book:The Katherine Mansfield notebooks

Source: The Katherine Mansfield notebooks

“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.”

People Believe Passion Work Tree Don't Believe Excited

Book:Letters to John Middleton Murry, 1913-1922

Source: Letters to John Middleton Murry, 1913-1922

“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.”

People Ifs Knows Trying Doe Two Earth Mystery Bounds

Book:KATHERINE MANSFIELD Premium Collection: 160+ Short Stories & Poems (Literature Classics Series): The Complete Short Stories and Poetry of Katherine Mansfield: Bliss, The Garden Party, The Dove’s Nest, Something Childish, In a German Pension, The Aloe, Poems at the Villa Pauline, Child Verses...

Source: KATHERINE MANSFIELD Premium Collection: 160+ Short Stories & Poems (Literature Classics Series): The Complete Short Stories and Poetry of Katherine Mansfield: Bliss, The Garden Party, The Dove’s Nest, Something Childish, In a German Pension, The Aloe, Poems at the Villa Pauline, Child Verses...

“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.”

People Should Worry Terrible Summer Cat Misery Winter Warm Bones Fats Why Not Snaps Hounds Terrible Times

Book:The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

Source: The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

“... I'd always rather be with people who loved me too little rather than with people who loved me too much.”

People Littles Too Much

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)

“In the shortest sea voyage there is no sense of time. You have been down in the cabin for hours or days or years. Nobody knows or cares. You know all the people to the point of indifference. You do not believe in dry land any more - you are caught in the pendulum itself, and left there, idly swinging.”

Source: KATHERINE MANSFIELD Premium Collection: 160+ Short Stories & Poems (Literature Classics Series): The Complete Short Stories and Poetry of Katherine Mansfield: Bliss, The Garden Party, The Dove’s Nest, Something Childish, In a German Pension, The Aloe, Poems at the Villa Pauline, Child Verses...

“I really only have Perfect Fun with myself. Other people won't stop and look at the things I want to look at or, if they do, they stop to please me or to humor me or to keep the peace.”

People Ifs Want Looks Fun Perfect Please Please Me

Book:journal

Source: journal

“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.”

People Writing Trying Satisfaction Impersonate

Book:The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1922-1923

Source: The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1922-1923

“Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who all are happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.”

People Hands Eye Happiness Presses Cheeks

Author:Katherine Mansfield

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