Quote by Katherine Mansfield
How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes t

How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life. – Katherine Mansfield

Other quotes by 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

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Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. – Katherine Mansfield

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

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I… wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain. – James Agate

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France is France and a grand place for Frenchman. – Harry Truman, letter to Bess Wallace, 1918 May 5th

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The tracks of the LTrain are the manly stubble on the ruggedly handsome face of Chicago. – Jason Sweeney

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This school was on top of a hill so that God could see everything that went on. It looked like a cross between a prison and a church and it was. – Quentin Crisp

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