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Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
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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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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When he talked his eyes went away from mine and then he forced himself to look straight at me and he began to explain and I knew that he felt very strange with me and that he hated me, and it was funny sitting there and talking like that, knowing he hated me.
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After all this, what happened? What happened was that, as soon as I had the slightest chance of a place to hide in, I crept into it and hid. Well, sometimes it's a fine day isn't it? Sometimes the skies are blue. Sometimes the air is light, easy to breathe. And there is always tomorrow.
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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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I sit at my window and the words fly past me like birds — with God's help I catch some.
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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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I didn't know, I didn't know, I didn't know.
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But they never last, the golden days. And it can be sad, the sun in the afternoon, can't it? Yes, it can be sad, the afternoon sun, sad and frightening.
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I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness.
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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 like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.
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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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before I could read, almost a baby, I imagined that God, this strange thing or person I heard about, was a book.
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It was like letting go and falling back into water and seeing yourself grinning up through the water, your face like a mask, and seeing the bubbles coming up as if you were trying to speak from under the water. And how do you know what it's like to try to speak from under water when you're drowned?
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Only the magic and the dream are true — all the rest's a lie.
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I want more of this feeling - fire and wings.
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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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There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.
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Love was a terrible thing. You poisoned it and stabbed at it and knocked it down into the mud - well down - and it got up and staggered on, bleeding and muddy and awful. Like - like Rasputin.
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She haunted him, as an ungenerous action haunts one.
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