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Only the magic and the dream are true — all the rest's a lie.

Jean Rhys

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Jean Rhys
Age: 88 †
Born: 1890
Born: August 24
Died: 1979
Died: May 14
Novelist
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Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams
Ella Rees Williams
Lying
True
Dream
Magic
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She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion.
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Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.
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Next week, or next month, or next year I will kill myself. But I might as well last out my month's rent, which has been paid up.
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If I was bound for hell, let it be hell. No more false heaven. No more damned magic.
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There is no doubt that running away on a fresh, blue morning can be exhilarating.
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I sit at my window and the words fly past me like birds — with God's help I catch some.
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And then the days came when I was alone.
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I hadn't bargained for this. I didn't think it would be like this - shabby clothes, worn-out shoes, circles under your eyes, your hair getting straight and lanky, the way people look at you. ... I didn't think it would be like this
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As it was in the beginning, ... is now, and ever shall be, world without end.
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Cold - cold as truth, cold as life. No, nothing can be as cold as life.
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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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One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All sorts of things.
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Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.
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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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It is strange how sad it can be - sunlight in the afternoon, don't you think?
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All of a writer that matters is in the book or books. It is idiotic to be curious about the person.
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I've been so ridiculous all my life that a little bit more or a little bit less hardly matters now.
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Stephan was secretive and a liar, but he was a very gentle and expert lover. She was the petted, cherished child, the desired mistress, the worshipped, perfumed goddess. She was all these things to Stephan - or so he made her believe.
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She’ll have no lover, for I don’t want her and she’ll see no other.
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