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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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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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Of course she had some pathetic illusions about herself or she would not be able to go on living.
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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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The woman had a humble, cringing manner. Of course, she had discovered that, having neither money nor virtue, she had better be humble if she knew what was good for her.
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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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She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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The rumble of the life outside was like the sound of the sea which was rising gradually around her.
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It's so easy to make a person who hasn't got anything seem wrong.
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And then the days came when I was alone.
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Quite like old times,' the room says.
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Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
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Cold - cold as truth, cold as life. No, nothing can be as cold as life.
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