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We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were... There must be the dark background to show up the bright colours.
Jean Rhys
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Jean Rhys
Age: 88 †
Born: 1890
Born: August 24
Died: 1979
Died: May 14
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Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams
Ella Rees Williams
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Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
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I must write. If I stop writing my life will have been an abject failure. It is that already to other people. But it could be an abject failure to myself. I will not have earned death.
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When I think about it, if I had to choose, I'd rather be happy than write.
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It's so easy to make a person who hasn't got anything seem wrong.
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He had discovered that people who allow themselves to be blown about by the winds of emotion and impulse are always unhappy people.
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Of course she had some pathetic illusions about herself or she would not be able to go on living.
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The woman had a humble, cringing manner. Of course, she had discovered that, having neither money nor virtue, she had better be humble if she knew what was good for her.
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I found when I was a child that if I put the hurt into words, it would go.
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No past to make us sentimental, no future to embarrass us...a difficult moment when you are out of practice - a moment that makes you go cold, cold and wary.
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