I have been here five days. 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.
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, streets that ar… - Jean Rhys
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, streets that ar…
- Jean Rhys
And then the days came when I was alone. - Jean Rhys
And then the days came when I was alone.
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 Rh… - 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 Rh…
You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world. - Jean Rhys
You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world.
A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is. - Jean Rhys
A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.
Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone. - Jean Rhys
Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.
When you are a child you are yourself and you know and see everything prophetically. And then suddenly something happens and you stop being yourself;… - Jean Rhys
When you are a child you are yourself and you know and see everything prophetically. And then suddenly something happens and you stop being yourself;…
I am the only real truth I know. - Jean Rhys
I am the only real truth I know.
There is always the other side, always. - Jean Rhys
There is always the other side, always.
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