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When you are a child you are yourself and you know and see everything prophetically. And then suddenly something happens and you stop being yourself; you become what others force you to be. You lose your wisdom and your soul.
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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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Only the hopeless are starkly sincere and…only the unhappy can either give or take sympathy.
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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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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…Some must cry so that others may be able to laugh the more heartily.
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There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.
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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.
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I took the red dress down and put it against myself. 'Does it make me look intemperate and unchaste?' I said.
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Jean Rhys
Born:
August 24, 1890
Died:
May 14, 1979
(aged 88)
Bio:
Jean Rhys, born Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams, was a mid-20th-century novelist who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica, though she was mainly resident in England from the age of 16.
Known for:
Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
Good Morning, Midnight (1939)
Voyage in the Dark (1934)
After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie (1930)
Smile please (1979)
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