Alice James Quotes and Sayings
- Name:
- Alice James (random)
- Books & Videos:
- Alice James Books & Videos
- Type:
- Writer
- Nationality:
- American
- Birth Date / Year:
- August 7, 1848
- Death Date / Year:
- March 6, 1892
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How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness. Alice James | Refcard PDF ↑
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I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more. Alice James | Refcard PDF ↑
- 3
I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. Alice James | Refcard PDF ↑
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I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am. Alice James | Refcard PDF ↑
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One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. Alice James | Refcard PDF ↑
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Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul. Alice James | Refcard PDF ↑
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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in? Alice James | Refcard PDF ↑
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The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape. Alice James | Refcard PDF ↑
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Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity. Alice James | Refcard PDF ↑
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What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading. Alice James | Refcard PDF ↑
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You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied. Alice James | Refcard PDF ↑
