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Jean Rhys quotes

English Novelist August 24, 1894 – May 14, 1979

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When I was excited about life, I didn't want to write at all. I've never written when I was happy. I didn't want to. But I've never had a long period of being happy, Do you think anyone has? I think you can be peaceful for a long time, When I think about it, if I had to choose, I'd rather be happy than write. You see, there's very little invention in my books. What came first with most of them was the wish to get rid of this awful sadness that weighed me down . I found when I was a child that... Jean Rhys
My life, which seems so simple and monotonous, is really a complicated affair of cafs where they like me and cafs where they don't, streets that are friendly, streets that aren't, rooms where I might be happy, rooms where I shall never be, looking-glasses I look nice in, looking-glasses I don't, dresses that will be lucky, dresses that won't, and so on. Jean Rhys
I watched her die many times. In my way, not in hers. In sunlight, in shadow, by moonlight, by candlelight. In the long afternoons when the house was empty. Only the sun was there to keep us company. We shut him out. And why not? Very soon she was as eager for what's called loving as I was - more lost and drowned afterwards. Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys quote: "Blot out the moon, Pull down the stars. Love in the dark, for..."
Blot out the moon, Pull down the stars. Love in the dark, for we're for the dark. So soon, so soon. Jean Rhys
I hated the mountains and the hills, the rivers and the rain. I hated the sunsets of whatever colour, I hated its beauty and its magic and the secret I would never know. I hated its indifference and the cruelty which was part of its loveliness. Above all I hated her. For she belonged to the magic and the loveliness. She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it. Jean Rhys
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. Jean Rhys
And I saw that all my life I had known that this was going to happen, and that I'd been afraid for a long time, I'd been afraid for a long time. There's fear, of course, with everybody. But now it had grown, it had grown gigantic; it filled me and it filled the whole world. Jean Rhys
I have been here five days. I have decided on a place to eat in at midday, a place to eat in at night, a place to have my drink in after dinner. I have arranged my little life. Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys quote: "The rumble of the life outside was like the sound of the sea..."
The rumble of the life outside was like the sound of the sea which was rising gradually around her. Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys quote: "She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and..."
She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it. Jean Rhys
I would never be part of anything. I would never really belong anywhere, and I knew it, and all my life would be the same, trying to belong, and failing. Always something would go wrong. I am a stranger and I always will be, and after all I didn’t really care. Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys quote: "I've been so ridiculous all my life that a little bit more or..."
I've been so ridiculous all my life that a little bit more or a little bit less hardly matters now. Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys quote: "The musty smell, the bugs, the lonliness, this room, which is..."
The musty smell, the bugs, the lonliness, this room, which is part of the street outside-this is all I want from life. Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys quote: "I have arranged my little life."
I have arranged my little life. Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys quote: "Life if curious when reduced to its essentials"
Life if curious when reduced to its essentials Jean Rhys

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