"It is an immense loss to have all……" — Alice James
"It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon."
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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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If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling…
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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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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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