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Jean Rhys

@MsJeanRhys

Daily tweets from the author of Wide Sargasso Sea, Good Morning, Midnight etc. If I could choose, I would rather be happy than write. https://t.co/HjhKeP2QCI

Dominica, London, Paris, Devon Beigetreten Nisan 2015
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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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I have been accused of madness. But if everything is in me, good, evil and so on, so must strength be in me if I know how to get at it.
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Am too wobbly to go up to London. Stage fright again!
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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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The vagabond nights, the fresh mornings, the long sleepy afternoons spent behind drawn curtains.
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What with worry and whisky nothing very sensible was arranged last summer.
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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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‘Quite like old times,’ the room says. ‘Yes? No?’
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I was a G.K. Chesterton sort of socialist, a cow and an acre of land for every man, that kind of thing.
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Nobody says a thing is splendid. You never say a thing is splendid, or a person is splendid. Do you? Splendor's gone.
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I've always prided myself on being more or less indifferent to what most people thought about a book once it was finished ... If I tinker around with it I'll spoil it, without helping myself a bit, from the being popular point of view. Oh Lordy Lord.
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Soon does one learn the bitter lesson that humanity is never content just to differ from you and let it go at that. Never.
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Today I must be very careful, today I have left my armour at home.
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Drink, drink their yellow horse piss, talk, talk their lying talk.
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She wondered what the old beast would say if he knew that she rather liked him.
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I will be all right. I must be. I wonder whether I'll post this?
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Oh God the stupidity, the ugliness, the darkness, the loneliness and the cruelty of this beastly little place.
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He rose, shook himself, and thus disturbed in his musings, lamented: ‘Oh, God! How I hate women who write! How I hate them!’ in an agreeable voice.
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How few people understood what a tightrope she walked or what would happen if she slipped. The abyss. Despair. All those things.
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Every day is a new day. Every day you are a new person.
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Altogether I feel like Katherine Mansfield's fly after it was drowned the sixth time or was it the seventh?
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