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Jean Rhys, a British novelist born on August 24, 1890, in the Dominican Republic, and died on May 14, 1979. Her works are known for their profound psychological descriptions and exploration of the female condition, with notable titles such as 'Wide Sargasso Sea'.

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“These people all fling themselves at me. Because I am uneasy and sad they all fling themselves at me larger than life. But I can put my arm up to avoid the impact and they slide gently to the ground. Individualists, completely wrapped up in themselves, thank God. It's the extrovert, prancing around, dying for a bit of fun - that's the person you've got to be wary of.”

People Life Fun Sad Uneasy Extrovert Wary Individualist Extroversion

Book:Good Morning, Midnight

Source: Good Morning, Midnight

“I've had enough of these streets that sweat a cold, yellow slime, of hostile people, of crying myself to sleep every night. I've had enough of thinking, enough of remembering.”

People Thinking Enough Sleep Streets Cry Cold Sweat Crying Hostile Remembering Slime

Book:Good Morning, Midnight

Source: Good Morning, Midnight

“very few people change after well say seven or seventeen. Not really. They get more this or more that and of course look a bit different. But inside they are the same.”

People Wells Looks Different Courses Bits Change Seven Seventeen

Book:The letters of Jean Rhys

Source: The letters of Jean Rhys

“I long to be ... Like Other People! The extraordinary, ungetatable, oddly cruel Other People, with their way of wantonly hurting and then accusing you of being thin-skinned, sulky, vindictive or ridiculous.”

People Way Long Hurt Extraordinary Ridiculous Accusing Unkindness Vindictive Sulky

Book:Tales of the wide Caribbean

Source: Tales of the wide Caribbean

“If all good, respectable people had one face, I'd spit in it.”

People Ifs Faces Respectable Spit

Author:Jean Rhys

“They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.”

People White Trouble

Book:Wide Sargasso Sea

Source: Wide Sargasso Sea

“He had discovered that people who allow themselves to be blown about by the winds of emotion and impulse are always unhappy people.”

People Emotion Wind Unhappy Impulse Unhappy People

Author: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.”

People Ifs Writing Has Beens

Book:Tales of the wide Caribbean

Source: Tales of the wide Caribbean

“that expression you get in your eyes when you are very tired and everything is like a dream and you are starting to know what things are like underneath what people say they are.”

People Knows Dream Eye Expression Tired Starting

Author:Jean Rhys

“There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.”

People Knows Two Real Real Ones

Book:Wide Sargasso Sea

Source: Wide Sargasso Sea

“I hadn't bargained for this. I didn't think it would be like this - shabby clothes, worn-out shoes, circles under your eyes, your hair getting straight and lanky, the way people look at you. ... I didn't think it would be like this”

People Thinking Way Looks Would Be Eye Hair Clothes Shoes Circles Worn Worn Out Shabby

Author:Jean Rhys

About the Author

Born: August 24, 1890
Died: May 14, 1979
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 144

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