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

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Source : Katherine Mansfield (1987). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume II: 1918-September 1919”, OUP Oxford

Katherine Mansfield

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“When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“You do know, I hope, that no man under the age of forty can even approach fascinating.”

Source : Tasha Alexander (2013). “The Lady Emily Omnibus (Books 1-4): And Only to Deceive, A Poisoned Season, A Fatal Waltz, Tears of Pearl”, p.511, Hachette UK
“An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.”
“If youre comfortable with who you are, it shows in your walk.”
“Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal, if not always in the sense that the inflexible major and minor system is tonal. (An "atonal" folk-music, in my opinion, is unthinkable.) Since we depend upon a tonal basis of this kind in our creative work, it is quite self-evident that our works are quite pronouncedly tonal in type. I must admit, however, that there was a time when I thought I was approaching a species of twelve-tone music. Yet even in works of that period the absolute tonal foundation is unmistakable.”

Source : "The Listening Composer". Book by George Perle, pp. 46-47, 1996.
“The church is not meant to call men and women out of the world into a safe religious enclave but to call them out in order to send them back as agents of God's kingship.”

Source : Lesslie Newbigin (1988). “Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture”, p.122, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
“Actually, I started to become an actress because I met someone who was just a friend and I found his life wonderful, I thought, Oh my god, you can travel, you're free, you can do what you want, you're the boss. And then I met an actor and I was in love with him.”
“The cat that Prim got hates me, I think partly because I tried to drown it.”

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