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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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You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world.
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that expression you get in your eyes when you are very tired and everything is like a dream and you are starting to know what things are like underneath what people say they are.
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The musty smell, the bugs, the lonliness, this room, which is part of the street outside-this is all I want from life.
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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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All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there are mere trickles, like Jean Rhys. All that matters is feeding the lake. I don't matter. The lake matters. You must keep feeding the lake.
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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.
Jean Rhys
I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.
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I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness.
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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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If I was bound for hell, let it be hell. No more false heaven. No more damned magic.
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Only the magic and the dream are true — all the rest's a lie.
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It is strange how sad it can be - sunlight in the afternoon, don't you think?
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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.
Jean Rhys
I sit at my window and the words fly past me like birds — with God's help I catch some.
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Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
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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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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
Quite like old times,' the room says.
Jean Rhys
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.
Jean Rhys
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.
Jean Rhys
