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

Bless you, my darling, and remember you are always in the heart — oh tucked so close there is no chance of escape — of your sister. – Katherine Mansfield

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Sisters
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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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Mind
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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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Other Quotes from
Places
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Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwrecks. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Poet at the Breakfast Table, 1872

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Places

They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California. – Author Unknown

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Places

It is the land of perpetual pubescence, where cultural lag is mistaken for renaissance. – Ashley Montagu, about California

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Places

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A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure. – Henry David Thoreau

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If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids. – Bo Bennett

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