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There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.
— Jean Rhys
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Jean Rhys
writer, novelist
1890 – 1979
Jean Rhys, was a novelist who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica. From the age of 16, she resided mainly in England, where she was sent for her education. She is best known for her novel Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), written as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. In 1978, she was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for her writing.
All Quotes by Jean Rhys
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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 thought if I told no one it might not be true.
— Jean Rhys
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I hated the mountains and the hills, the rivers and the rain. I hated the sunsets of whatever colour, I hated its beauty and its magic and the secret I would never know. I hated its indifference and the cruelty which was part of its loveliness. Above all I hated her. For she belonged to the magic and the loveliness. She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.
— Jean Rhys
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Only the magic and the dream are true — all the rest's a lie.
— Jean Rhys