Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people. (Katherine Mansfield)

Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.

Katherine Mansfield

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