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Jean Rhys quotes

English Novelist August 24, 1894 – May 14, 1979

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It was like letting go and falling back into water and seeing yourself grinning up through the water, your face like a mask, and seeing the bubbles coming up as if you were trying to speak from under the water. And how do you know what it's like to try to speak from under water when you're drowned? Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys quote: "There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people..."
There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about. Jean Rhys
Every word I say has chains round its ankles; every thought I think is weighted with heavy weights. Since I was born, hasn't every word I've said, every thought I've thought, everything I've done, been tied up, weighted, chained? And mind you, I know that with all this I don't succeed. Or I succeed in flashes only too damned well. ...But think how hard I try and how seldom I dare. Think - and have a bit of pity. That is, if you ever think, you apes, which I doubt. Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys quote: "Quite like old times,' the room says."
Quite like old times,' the room says. Jean Rhys
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... Jean Rhys
He had discovered that people who allow themselves to be blown about by the winds of emotion and impulse are always unhappy people. Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys quote: "Something came out from my heart into my throat and then into..."
Something came out from my heart into my throat and then into my eyes. Jean Rhys
You imagine the carefully pruned, shaped thing that is presented to you is truth. That is just what it isn't. The truth is improbable, the truth is fantastic; it's in what you think is a distorting mirror that you see the truth. Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys quote: "Today I must be very careful, today I have left my armor at home."
Today I must be very careful, today I have left my armor at home. Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys quote: "Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from..."
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere. Jean Rhys
Stephan was secretive and a liar, but he was a very gentle and expert lover. She was the petted, cherished child, the desired mistress, the worshipped, perfumed goddess. She was all these things to Stephan - or so he made her believe. Jean Rhys
...I know all about myself now, I know. You've told me so often. You haven't left me one rag of illusion to clothe myself in. Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys quote: "morbidly, attracted him to strangeness, to recklessnesss, even..."
...morbidly, attracted him to strangeness, to recklessnesss, even unhappiness. Jean Rhys
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. Jean Rhys
All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there are mere trickles, like Jean Rhys. All that matters is feeding the lake. I don't matter. The lake matters. You must keep feeding the lake. Jean Rhys

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