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'Mein Lieb, Mon Cher, My Dear, Amigo,' the letter began (beginning of the story "Tigers Are Better-looking")

— Jean Rhys Tigers are Better-Looking (1968)

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It's a lovely feeling to know you can do exactly as you like.

Lies are never forgotten, they go on and they grow.

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"...Money have pretty face for everybody, but for that man money pretty like pretty self, he can't see nothing else.

Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)

I woke the next morning knowing that nothing would be the same. It would change and go on changing.

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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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