Jean Rhys - People Quotes

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There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.

Jean Rhys

They sat at a corner table in the little restaurant, eating with gusto and noise after the manner of simple-hearted people who like their neighbours to see and know their pleasures.

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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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I long to be... Like Other People! The extraordinary, ungetatable, oddly cruel Other People, with their way of wantonly hurting and then accusing you of being thin-skinned, sulky, vindictive or ridiculous.

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Very few people change after well say seven or seventeen. Not really. They get more this or more that and of course look a bit different. But inside they are the same.

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