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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.
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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She haunted him, as an ungenerous action haunts one.
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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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Soon he'll come in again and kiss me, but differently. He'll be different and so I'll be different. It'll be different. I thought, 'It'll be different, different. It must be different.
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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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And what does anyone know about traitors, or why Judas did what he did?
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The rumble of the life outside was like the sound of the sea which was rising gradually around her.
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As it was in the beginning, ... is now, and ever shall be, world without end.
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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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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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