"If I can get on to my sofa……" — Alice James
"If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able to read the books that belong to me, in that they clarify the density, and shape the formless mass within, life seems inconceivably rich..."
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Alice James
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18 Quotes by Alice James
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I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.
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It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!
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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…
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How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make…
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Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?
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What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.
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Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.
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It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial…
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The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less…
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I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
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Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.
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You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions…
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