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" was an United States/American List of diarists/diarist. The only daughter of Henry James, Sr. and sister of psychologist and philosopher William James and novelist Henry James, she is known mainly for the posthumously published diary that she kept in her final years.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous writers! More Alice James on Wikipedia.One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!
Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.
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.
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.
You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.
I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.
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