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Jean Rhys Quotes

«Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.»
Author: Jean Rhys (Novelist) | About: Reading | Keywords: everywhere, homes, immigrant, immigrants
«I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men - at least they can cry.»
Author: Jean Rhys (Novelist) | About: Tears
«I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and one that is broken, sad as a woman who is growing old.»
Author: Jean Rhys (Novelist)
«She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion.»
«We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were ... Some must cry so that others may be able to laugh the more heartily»
Author: Jean Rhys (Novelist) | Keywords: heartily
«Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.»
Author: Jean Rhys (Novelist)
«I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.»
Author: Jean Rhys (Novelist)
«They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.»
Author: Jean Rhys (Novelist)