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Alice James
American
Writer
About the author
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,
American
Writer
#Fun
#Difficulty
#Dying
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,
American
Writer
#Being
#Respect
#Selfishness
What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.
Alice James,
American
Writer
#Sense
#Reading
#Superiority
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,
American
Writer
#Man
#Needs
#Woman
#Emotions
#Nature
Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.
Alice James,
American
Writer
#Value
#Worth
#Quantity
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,
American
Writer
#Right
#Life
#Success
#Failure
#Luck
#Lie
#Posterity
One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
Alice James,
American
Writer
#Experience
#Sense
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.
Alice James,
American
Writer
#Wonder
#Education
#Fool
I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
Alice James,
American
Writer
#Compliments
I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
Alice James,
American
Writer
#Experience
#Sense
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,
American
Writer
#Mind
#Soul
#Pain