"Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more……" — Jean Rhys

"Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks."

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89 Quotes by Jean Rhys

Jean Rhys has 89 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Next week, or next month, or next year I will kill myself. But I might as well last out my…
The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.
I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness...
All of a writer that matters is in the book or books. It is idiotic to be curious about the…
I want more of this feeling - fire and wings.
Even the one moment that you thought was your eternity fades out and is forgotten and dies.
Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment.
I am empty of everything. I am empty of everything but the thin, frail ghosts in my room.
I hadn't bargained for this. I didn't think it would be like this - shabby clothes, worn-out shoes, circles under…
I sit at my window and the words fly past me like birds — with God's help I catch some.
If I was bound for hell, let it be hell. No more false heaven. No more damned magic.
The perpetual hunger to be beautiful and that thirst to be loved which is the real curse of Eve.

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More Age Quotes

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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become… — Giorgio Armani
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time.… — Brooks Atkinson
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood

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