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Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography QUOTES

1 " I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any. "

― Jean Rhys , Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography

2 " I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any. "

― Jean Rhys , Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography

3 " I would never be part of anything. I would never really belong anywhere, and I knew it, and all my life would be the same, trying to belong, and failing. Always something would go wrong. I am a stranger and I always will be, and after all I didn’t really care. "

― Jean Rhys , Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography

4 " I got quite used to changing that cheque, because you can get used to anything. You think: I'll never do that; and you find yourself doing it. "

― Jean Rhys , Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography

5 " If I could choose I would rather be happy than write. "

― Jean Rhys , Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography

6 " When my first love affair came to an end I wrote this poem:

I didn't know
I didn't know
I didn't know. "

― Jean Rhys , Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography