"It was like letting go and falling back……" — Jean Rhys
"It was like letting go and falling back into water and seeing yourself grinning up through the water, your face like a mask, and seeing the bubbles coming up as if you were trying to speak from under the water. And how do you know what it's like to try to speak from under water when you're drowned?"
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Jean Rhys
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89 Quotes by Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys has 89 quotes on this site.
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Next week, or next month, or next year I will kill myself. But I might as well last out my…
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The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.
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Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
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I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness...
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All of a writer that matters is in the book or books. It is idiotic to be curious about the…
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I want more of this feeling - fire and wings.
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Even the one moment that you thought was your eternity fades out and is forgotten and dies.
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Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment.
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I am empty of everything. I am empty of everything but the thin, frail ghosts in my room.
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I hadn't bargained for this. I didn't think it would be like this - shabby clothes, worn-out shoes, circles under…
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I sit at my window and the words fly past me like birds — with God's help I catch some.
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If I was bound for hell, let it be hell. No more false heaven. No more damned magic.
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This world's a bubble.
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Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
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I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's…
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The fact is that movie stars are as insecure as the rest of us - if not more so. Many…
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Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the…
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Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no…
— Henri Poincare
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Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch…
— George Santayana
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I have seen youths bright eyed and fair groping after bubbles in rapture, and conceiving them diamonds and the glitter…
— Theodore Dreiser
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I'm interested to go other places, I've been the boy in the bubble since we've been shooting, I need to…
— George Eads
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I came here to chew bubble gum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubble gum.
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Concentrating wealth in the hands of the few and deregulating financial institutions and practices lead to speculative bubbles that eventually…
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