Jean Rhys @MsJeanRhys Twitter profile

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Jean Rhys

9 years

EDITOR'S NOTE: If you respond to one of Ms Rhys's tweets, please be aware she is very, very unlikely to reply. Because she's dead.

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Jean Rhys

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1 year

I had two longings & one was fighting the other. I wanted to be loved & I wanted to be always alone.

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2 years

My life, which seems so simple and monotonous, is really a complicated affair of cafés where they like me and cafés where they don't...

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3 years

EDITOR’S NOTE: Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams - Jean Rhys to you - was born on August 24th 1890. “My life has been turbulent and very boring.” Portrait by Paul Joyce, 1977.

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Jean Rhys

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2 years

It was one of those days when you can see the ghosts of all the other lovely days. You drink a bit and watch the ghosts.

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5 years

It's all gone wrong, the whole country. Rain, rain, weeping for England. How I hate this country.

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2 years

EDITOR’S NOTE: If Twitter does collapse and this account ceases to exist, you can find almost all the quotes in Jean Rhys’s books, and in the correct order and original context too. So just read those.

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Jean Rhys

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4 years

It was one of those days when you can see the ghosts of all the other lovely days. You drink a bit and watch the ghosts.

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Jean Rhys

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6 years

It's all gone wrong, the whole country. Rain, rain, weeping for England. How I hate this country.

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Jean Rhys

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4 years

I must say Americans dream up such awful horrors.

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Jean Rhys

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4 years

I've thought about death a great deal. One day in the snow I felt so tired. I thought, Damn it, I'll sit down. I can't go on. I'm tired of living here in the snow and ice. So I sat down on the ground. But it was cold so I got up.

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Jean Rhys

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6 years

EDITOR'S NOTE: Non-followers chiding Ms Rhys whilst seemingly unaware she died in 1979 are the best.

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6 years

It's all gone wrong, the whole country. Rain, rain, weeping for England. How I hate this country.

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Jean Rhys

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2 years

Oh, God, I'm only twenty and I'll have to go on living and living and living.

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Jean Rhys

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1 year

EDITOR’S NOTE: Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams - Jean Rhys to you - was born on August 24th 1890. “I've had rather a rum life, but I was thinking the other day, would I go through it all again? I think not.” Portrait by Paul Joyce, 1977.

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Jean Rhys

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5 years

I'm going to try and relax, get my hair cut, buy a cheap dress, and generally pull myself together. Please wish me luck.

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Jean Rhys

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6 years

When I read Jane Eyre as a child, I thought, why should she think Creole women are lunatics and all that? She seemed such a poor ghost. I thought I'd try to write her a life.

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Jean Rhys

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5 years

My God, this is a funny way to live. My God, how did this happen?

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Jean Rhys

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5 years

Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.

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Jean Rhys

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8 years

EDITOR'S NOTE: Ms Rhys's work is not for everyone.

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Jean Rhys

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6 years

Sleep is so lovely, better than food or thinking or writing or anything.

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Jean Rhys

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3 years

Sleep is so lovely, better than food or thinking or writing or anything.

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Jean Rhys

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5 years

Imagine a life without drink or books or a friend to say "Onward" or a hairdo or a dentist.

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Jean Rhys

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3 years

Have you got any books? It's horrible outside.

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Jean Rhys

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5 years

I had two longings & one was fighting the other. I wanted to be loved & I wanted to be always alone.

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Jean Rhys

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4 years

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.

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Jean Rhys

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8 years

EDITOR'S NOTE: Ms Rhys thanks you for your interest but requires no advice on social media and is also dead.

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8 years

@MsJeanRhys Thought you might like this 100 pg guide to social media for writers available free here:

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Jean Rhys

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3 years

When I read Jane Eyre as a child, I thought, why should she think Creole women are lunatics and all that? She seemed such a poor ghost. I thought I'd try to write her a life.

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Jean Rhys

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4 years

One knows that the whole damn thing's idiotic, futile, not even pleasant, but one goes on. One's caught in a sort of trap, I suppose.

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Jean Rhys

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5 years

My life, which seems so simple and monotonous, is really a complicated affair of cafés where they like me and cafés where they don't...

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Jean Rhys

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5 years

I have always disliked and distrusted this village - but I did not know how beastly it could be.

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Jean Rhys

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2 years

Twelve o'clock on a fine autumn day, and nothing to worry about. Some money to spend and nothing to worry about.

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Jean Rhys

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5 years

I am saving up for a real debauch some time.

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Jean Rhys

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4 years

I think my life very unenviable to outsiders. Yet I am envied and hated. Why?

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Jean Rhys

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5 years

'Oh, shut up about being tired,' she would say. 'You were born tired. I'm tired too. We're all tired.'

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Jean Rhys

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6 years

I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.

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Jean Rhys

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2 years

All the worst mistakes have started because out of a weak futile conceited gutless desire to please I've done something I didn't want to do.

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Jean Rhys

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4 years

I kept thinking, 'I'm all right. I still like going fast in a car and eating and drinking and hot baths. I'm quite all right.'

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Jean Rhys

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5 years

The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.

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Jean Rhys

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3 years

'Oh, shut up about being tired,' she would say. 'You were born tired. I'm tired too. We're all tired.'

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Jean Rhys

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4 years

I felt a certainty of joy, and terrific, terrific happiness, not only for me, but for everyone. I sat and I looked about and I thought: Why do I hate people? They're not hateful. My happiness for everyone lasted, lasted, perhaps three or four days.

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Jean Rhys

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3 years

Oh, God, I'm only twenty and I'll have to go on living and living and living.

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Jean Rhys

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4 years

My life has been turbulent and very boring.

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Jean Rhys

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7 years

It was one of those days when you can see the ghosts of all the other lovely days. You drink a bit and watch the ghosts.

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Jean Rhys

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8 years

The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.

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Jean Rhys

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7 years

I wait for the evening and the wine and that's all.

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Jean Rhys

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2 years

I'm going to try and relax, get my hair cut, buy a cheap dress, and generally pull myself together. Please wish me luck.

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Jean Rhys

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5 years

I wait for the evening and the wine and that's all.

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Jean Rhys

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4 years

You can get used to anything. You think: I'll never do that; and you find yourself doing it.

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Jean Rhys

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7 years

I've thought about death a great deal. One day in the snow I felt so tired. I thought, Damn it, I'll sit down. I can't go on. I'm tired of living here in the snow and ice. So I sat down on the ground. But it was cold so I got up.

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Jean Rhys

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2 years

At lunch she drank a half-bottle of Burgundy and felt very hopeful.

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Jean Rhys

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6 years

She had another whisky and went on about being clever.

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Jean Rhys

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6 years

She began to argue there was something unreal about most English people. 'They touch life with gloves on.'

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Jean Rhys

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4 years

At lunch she drank a half-bottle of Burgundy and felt very hopeful.

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Jean Rhys

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6 years

Oh God the stupidity, the ugliness, the darkness, the loneliness and the cruelty of this beastly little place.

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Jean Rhys

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4 years

I am always being told that until my work ceases being "sordid and depressing" I haven't much chance of selling.

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Jean Rhys

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5 years

A room is a place where you hide from the wolves outside and that's all any room is.

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Jean Rhys

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5 years

Her life had been a long succession of humiliations and mistakes and pains and ridiculous efforts. Everybody's life was like that.

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Jean Rhys

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7 years

What one should do is write in an ordinary way and make the writing seem extraordinary. One should write, too, about what is ordinary, and see the extraordinary behind it.

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Jean Rhys

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4 years

Oh God the stupidity, the ugliness, the darkness, the loneliness and the cruelty of this beastly little place.

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Jean Rhys

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2 years

I've thought about death a great deal. One day in the snow I felt so tired. I thought, Damn it, I'll sit down. I can't go on. I'm tired of living here in the snow and ice. So I sat down on the ground. But it was cold so I got up.

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Jean Rhys

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4 years

My dream is to finish my book, get a face lift, and a bright red wig.

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Jean Rhys

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4 years

You have to be selfish to be a writer. Monstrously selfish.

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Jean Rhys

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1 year

When my first love affair came to an end I wrote this poem: I didn't know I didn't know I didn't know Then I settled down to be miserable.

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Jean Rhys

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1 year

Planning it all out. Eating. A movie. Eating again. One drink. A long walk back to the hotel. Bed. Luminal. Sleep. Just sleep - no dreams.

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Jean Rhys

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3 years

Writers have a tough time and nobody likes them either! Till they are dead. Then they become quite respectable and useful.

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Jean Rhys

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5 years

I like being alone. Not always of course, but one can't have everything.

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Jean Rhys

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4 years

Oh, I found England bitterly cold. I used to lie in bed and shiver and shiver, wondering why I'd ever dreamt of wanting to see daffodils and snowflakes.

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Jean Rhys

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4 years

What was London to me? It was a little room, smelling stuffy, with my stockings hanging to dry in front of a gas-fire.

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Jean Rhys

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4 years

What do I care about anything when I can lie on the bed and pull the past over me like a blanket?

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Jean Rhys

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2 years

I don't feel well. I don't feel up to it. My clothes are too shabby. Besides, I hate people. I'm afraid of people. I never used to be like this, but now I'm going dippy, I suppose.

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Jean Rhys

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6 years

I came to London with high hopes, but all I got out of it was a broken heart and enough sneers to last me for the next thirty years.

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Jean Rhys

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1 year

The extrovert, prancing around, dying for a bit of fun - that's the person you've got to be wary of.

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Jean Rhys

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3 years

She got back into bed again. Darkness, quiet, safety.

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Jean Rhys

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2 years

Wish me well for I've tried hard.

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Jean Rhys

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2 years

I'm a grotesque creature in this lovely day and age. So what?

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Jean Rhys

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4 years

I found when I was a child that if I could put the hurt into words, it would go. It leaves a sort of melancholy behind and then it goes.

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Jean Rhys

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2 years

A room is a place where you hide from the wolves outside and that's all any room is.

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Jean Rhys

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4 years

Today I must be very careful, today I have left my armour at home.

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Jean Rhys

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2 years

I am an inefficient member of Society, slow in the uptake, uncertain, slightly damaged in the fray, there's no denying it.

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Jean Rhys

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4 years

I am of course awfully clever about everything. In theory. And too late.

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Jean Rhys

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1 year

Venus is dead; Apollo is dead; even Jesus is dead. All that is left in the world is an enormous machine, made of white steel.

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Jean Rhys

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4 years

'Police - that's something I don't like.'

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Jean Rhys

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6 years

I kept thinking, 'I'm all right. I still like going fast in a car and eating and drinking and hot baths. I'm quite all right.'

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Jean Rhys

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7 years

I'll bet my tears are ninety per cent gin.

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Jean Rhys

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4 years

I want a long, calm book about people with large incomes - a book like a flat green meadow and the sheep feeding in it.

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Jean Rhys

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5 years

All the worst mistakes have started because out of a weak futile conceited gutless desire to please I've done something I didn't want to do.

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Jean Rhys

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6 years

Have you got any books? It's horrible outside.

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Jean Rhys

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2 years

It's funny when you feel as if you don't want anything more in your life except to sleep, or else to lie without moving. That’s when you can hear time sliding past you, like water running.

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Jean Rhys

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3 years

Don't worry. Let it go like water running past you, and be as serene as you can.

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Jean Rhys

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1 year

Her life had been a long succession of humiliations and mistakes and pains and ridiculous efforts. Everybody's life was like that.

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Jean Rhys

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1 year

It was horrible to hear this ruin of a woman voicing all her own moods, all her own thoughts. Horrible.

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Jean Rhys

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4 years

It's an English summer now, so cool, so grey. Yet I think of my revenge and hurricanes.

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Jean Rhys

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7 years

At lunch she drank a half-bottle of Burgundy and felt very hopeful.

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Jean Rhys

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4 years

There is no control over memory. Quite soon you find yourself being vague about an event which seemed so important at the time that you thought you'd never forget it.

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Jean Rhys

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4 years

I'm very weary of your nonsense.

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Jean Rhys

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7 years

I will write again when things are better but write to me about cats and books - Please.

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Jean Rhys

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4 years

Wish me well for I've tried hard.

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Jean Rhys

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8 years

EDITOR'S NOTE: Ms Rhys's masterpiece Wide Sargasso Sea was published 50 years ago this month. Here is the first edition dust jacket in full.

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Jean Rhys

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6 years

Love was a terrible thing. You poisoned it and stabbed at it and knocked it down into the mud and it got up and staggered on, bleeding and muddy and awful. Like - like Rasputin.

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Jean Rhys

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8 years

I had two longings & one was fighting the other. I wanted to be loved & I wanted to be always alone.

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