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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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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 have arranged my little life.
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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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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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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.
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Even the one moment that you thought was your eternity fades out and is forgotten and dies.
Jean Rhys
She’ll have no lover, for I don’t want her and she’ll see no other.
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It's so easy to make a person who hasn't got anything seem wrong.
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It was the darkness that got you. It was heavy darkness, greasy and compelling. It made walls round you, and shut you in so that you felt like you could not breathe.
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She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion.
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There is no doubt that running away on a fresh, blue morning can be exhilarating.
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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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Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
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As it was in the beginning, ... is now, and ever shall be, world without end.
Jean Rhys
I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.
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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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Of course she had some pathetic illusions about herself or she would not be able to go on living.
Jean Rhys
Life if curious when reduced to its essentials
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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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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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