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• Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It’s more often a succession of jerks.

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• The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still. Like when they say ‘As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end’.

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• We will watch the sun set again-many times, and perhaps we’ll see the Emerald Drop, the green flash that brings good fortune.

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• Cold-cold as truth, cold as life. No, nothing can be as cold as life.

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• 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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• I wanted to be black. I always wanted to be black… Being black is warm and gay, being white is cold and sad.

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• The perpetual hunger to be beautiful and that thirst to be loved which is the real curse of Eve.

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• Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

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• I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men – at least they can cry.

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• I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn’t have any.

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Birth:	24th August, 1890
Death:	14th May, 1979
Nationality:	Dominican
Profession:	Novelist, Writer

About

Jean Rhys was born in Roseau, Dominica. She was a Dominican novelist and short story writer who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica, though she was mainly resident in England from the age of 16. She studied at Perse School for Girls in Cambridge, and Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. She wrote several novels include: Postures, After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie, Voyage in the Dark, Good Morning, Midnight, and Wide Sargasso Sea. She wrote several short stories include: The Left Bank and Other Stories, Tigers Are Better-Looking, Sleep It Off Lady, Tales of the Wide Caribbean, and Let Them Call it Jazz and Other Stories.

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