{"author":"Katherine Mansfield","author_id":"Katherine+Mansfield","total_quotes":56,"quotes":[{"text":"There were all her feelings for him, sharp and defined, one as true as the other. And there was the other, this hatred, just as real as the rest. She could have done her feelings up in little packets and given them to Stanley. She longed to hand him that last one, for a surprise. She could see his eyes as he opened that...","author":"Katherine Mansfield","tags":["hatred"],"id":8297,"author_id":"Katherine+Mansfield"},{"text":"We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself  in the face of difficulties.","author":"Katherine Mansfield","tags":["motivational"],"id":13858,"author_id":"Katherine+Mansfield"},{"text":"It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask.","author":"Katherine Mansfield","tags":["mask","you","terrible "],"id":46656,"author_id":"Katherine+Mansfield"},{"text":"I saw myself driving through Eternity in a timeless taxi.","author":"Katherine Mansfield","tags":["drama","humor"],"id":62367,"author_id":"Katherine+Mansfield"},{"text":"Query: Why am I so bitter against Life? And why do I see her as a rag-picker on the American cinema, shuffling along wrapped in a filthy shawl with her old claws crooked over a stick?Answer: The direct result of the American cinema acting upon a weak mind.","author":"Katherine Mansfield","tags":["life","movies"],"id":66812,"author_id":"Katherine+Mansfield"},{"text":"Sleeping was her latest discovery. 'It's so wonderful. One simply shuts one's eyes, that's all. It's so delicious.","author":"Katherine Mansfield","tags":["delicious","love-to-sleep","sleep","wonderful"],"id":66817,"author_id":"Katherine+Mansfield"},{"text":"I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.","author":"Katherine Mansfield","tags":["great","comfort","explain "],"id":72172,"author_id":"Katherine+Mansfield"},{"text":"When we begin to take our failures non-seriously  it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.","author":"Katherine Mansfield","tags":["events"],"id":73136,"author_id":"Katherine+Mansfield"},{"text":"Everything about her was sweet, pale like honey. You would not have been surprised to see a bee caught in the tangles of that yellow hair.","author":"Katherine Mansfield","tags":["bees","description","honey","people"],"id":93942,"author_id":"Katherine+Mansfield"},{"text":"Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change of attitude.","author":"Katherine Mansfield","tags":["attitude","self-perception"],"id":106092,"author_id":"Katherine+Mansfield"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":56,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}