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Alice James has 19 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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 fun come…
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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…
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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 my notes,…
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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 refinement is…
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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…
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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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It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!
— Alice James
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He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are…
— Samuel Ullman
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Every day I would wake up and think, 'Today is another missed opportunity to do something important.' After enough days like this,…
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I've been being asked about my legacy since I was about 25 years old. I'm not sure you can have a legacy…
— Peyton Manning
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I like being old, even if the names I hear are more and more unfamiliar. Maybe, to paraphrase Goethe who said that,…
— Wolf Kahn
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Even when the east excited me most, even when I was keenly aware of its superiority to the broad, sprawling, swollen towns…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I could stare at you for a lifetime. It would never grow old." "Even when I'm old?" "Even then.
— Unknown Author
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I've always been keenly aware of the passing of time. I've always thought that I was old. Even when I was twelve,…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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