Short stories can be like photographs, catching people at some moment in their lives and trapping the memory for ever . There they are, smiling or frowning, looking sad, happy, serious, surprised ... And behind those smiles and those frowns lie all the experience of life, the fears and delights, the hopes and the dreams

Katherine Mansfield

Katherine Mansfield

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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.

— Katherine Mansfield

When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

— Katherine Mansfield

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The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your actions will be.

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To work / to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

— Katherine Mansfield

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