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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
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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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Cold - cold as truth, cold as life. No, nothing can be as cold as life.
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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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...I know all about myself now, I know. You've told me so often. You haven't left me one rag of illusion to clothe myself in.
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I am the only real truth I know.
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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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