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(How much in your books comes from personal experience?) RHYS: If you experience a thing you know you can write it so much more, but life's one thing, a book's another.

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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.

Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)

"...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.

Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)

I sit at my window and the words fly past me like birds — with God's help I catch some.

Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)

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