“If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushr...” — Katherine Mansfield Quote

“If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.”

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

“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”

“It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.”

“I wish I could speak Spanish, because it would be a lot easier to play more interesting roles.”

“And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.”