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Jean Rhys

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Daily quotes from the author of Wide Sargasso Sea, Good Morning, Midnight etc. "If I could choose, I would rather be happy than write." Dead since 1979.

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Jean Rhys @msjeanrhys.bsky.social · 9d

My will is quite weakened because I drink too much but even this lunatic writing is better than the blank blank days.

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Jean Rhys @msjeanrhys.bsky.social · 16d

I usually dislike my books, sometimes don't want to touch them. But the Next One will be a bit better.

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Jean Rhys @msjeanrhys.bsky.social · 17d

I don't mind about being laughed at any more. Isn't it funny? Probably I'm being hated instead.

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 22d

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Joris Stereo @jorisstereo.bsky.social · 22d

@andrewmale.bsky.social you've seen this? (I only know the name 'jean rhys' because of your occasional retweets....) www.michaelwerner.com/exhibitions/...

Postures: Jean Rhys in the Modern World - Curated by Hilton Als - Exhibitions - Michael Werner Gallery, New York, London, Beverly Hills

Since 1963, Michael Werner Gallery has worked with some of the most important European and American artists of the 20th Century.

www.michaelwerner.com

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Jean Rhys @msjeanrhys.bsky.social · 23d

I had started out in life trusting everyone and now I trusted no one. So I had few acquaintances and no close friends.

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Jean Rhys @msjeanrhys.bsky.social · 25d

I don't give a damn for my idiotic body of a woman, anyway. And all the people who yap.

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Jean Rhys @msjeanrhys.bsky.social · 28d

Because she was outside the machine they might come along any time with a pair of huge iron tongs and pick her up and put her on the rubbish heap, and there she would lie and rot.

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Jean Rhys @msjeanrhys.bsky.social · 29d

I must say Americans dream up such awful horrors.

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Jean Rhys @msjeanrhys.bsky.social · Sep 9

There was a man standing on a box, bawling something about God. Nobody was listening to him. You could only hear ‘God…. God…. The wrath of God…. Wah, wah, wah, wah …’

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Jean Rhys @msjeanrhys.bsky.social · Sep 7

The "Paris" all these people write about, Henry Miller, even Hemingway etc was not "Paris" at all - it was "America in Paris". The real Paris had nothing to do with that lot - As soon as the tourists came the real Montparnos packed up and left.

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Jean Rhys @msjeanrhys.bsky.social · Sep 6

He might be right. On the other hand, he might just possibly be wrong. But it didn't really matter much.

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Jean Rhys @msjeanrhys.bsky.social · Sep 4

'Cheer up,' he said. 'The world is big. There's hope.'
'Of course.' But suddenly I saw the women's long, scowling faces over their lupins and their poppies, and my room in Torrington Square and the iron bars of my bedstead, and I thought, 'Not for me.'

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Jean Rhys @msjeanrhys.bsky.social · Sep 3

All this I saw and heard in a fraction of a second. And the sky so red. Someone screamed and I thought, Why did I scream? I called ‘Tia!’ and jumped and woke.

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Jean Rhys @msjeanrhys.bsky.social · Sep 2

I am utterly completely and for ever Fed UP with the country.

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Jean Rhys @msjeanrhys.bsky.social · Sep 1

Almost any book was better than life, Audrey thought. Or rather, life as she was living it.

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Jean Rhys @msjeanrhys.bsky.social · Aug 28

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

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Jean Rhys @msjeanrhys.bsky.social · Aug 26

She talked about books till I wanted to scream - or say Merde or something. I agreed with everything she said God help me - and was miserable all next day.

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Jean Rhys @msjeanrhys.bsky.social · Aug 25

I can be silent too, and behave nicely though that's a strain.

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Jean Rhys @msjeanrhys.bsky.social · Aug 24

Justice. I've heard that word. I tried it out. I wrote it down. I wrote it down several times and always it looked like a damn cold lie.

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Jean Rhys @msjeanrhys.bsky.social · Aug 23

Some old people are lonely. But a great many others live in dread of being argued with, persuaded or even forced to do something which they know will be catastrophic.

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Jean Rhys @msjeanrhys.bsky.social · Aug 20

Persecution maniacs (so called) always have been, and usually still are, the victims of persecution.

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Jean Rhys @msjeanrhys.bsky.social · Aug 19

Drink, drink their yellow horse piss, talk, talk their lying talk.

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Jean Rhys @msjeanrhys.bsky.social · Aug 18

I bought a lot of candles at Woolworths and now the lamp only takes half an hour or so to light. It's just a matter of the right screw at the right time.
Like everything.

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Jean Rhys @msjeanrhys.bsky.social · Aug 16

I knew how to get away from the heat and the shouting, for there was shouting now. When I was out on the battlements it was cool and I could hardly hear them.

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Jean Rhys @msjeanrhys.bsky.social · Aug 15

The trouble is that human nature being what it is euthanasia wouldn't remain voluntary for long. Nor would it stop at old people.

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