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I think that if I get into the habit of writing a bit about what happens, or rather doesn't happen, I may lose a little of the sense of isolation and desolation which abides with me. My circumstances allowing of nothing but the ejaculation of one-syllabled reflections, a written monologue by that most interesting being, myself, may have its yet to be discovered consolations.
Alice James Quotes: I think that if I
It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!
Alice James Quotes: It is so comic to
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.
Alice James Quotes: It is an immense loss
The paralytic on his couch can have if he wants them wider experiences than Stanley slaughtering the savages, the two roomed cottage may enclose an infinitely richer, sweeter domestic harmony than the palace; and the peaceful cotton-spinner win victories beside which those of the reverberating general are dust and ashes -- let us not waster the sacred fire and wear away the tissues in the vulgar pursuit of what others have and we have not; admitting defeat isn't the way to conquer and from every failure imperishable experience survives
Alice James Quotes: The paralytic on his couch
How fatally the entire want of humor cripples the mind.
Alice James Quotes: How fatally the entire want
I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
Alice James Quotes: I make it a rule
Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.
Alice James Quotes: Truly nothing is to be
The fact is, I have been dead so long and it has been simply such a grim shoving of the hours behind me ... since the hideous summer of '78, when I went down to the deep sea, its dark waters closed over me and I knew neither hope nor peace.
Alice James Quotes: The fact is, I have
Sargy always had the capacities of a cormorant, so he is able to swallow her whole, not having to think about her as she is going down must make it easier
Alice James Quotes: Sargy always had the capacities
Original sin is my only refuge, I was born bad and I never have recovered
Alice James Quotes: Original sin is my only
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 Quotes: You must remember that a
When will women begin to have the first glimmer that above all other loyalties is the loyalty toTruth, i.e., to yourself, that husband, children, friends and countryare as nothing to that.
Alice James Quotes: When will women begin to
Notwithstanding the poverty of my outside experience, I have always had a significance for myself, and every chance to stumle along my straight and narrow little path, and to worship at the feet of my Deity, and what more can a human soul ask for?
Alice James Quotes: Notwithstanding the poverty of my
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 ...
Alice James Quotes: If I can get on
Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.
Alice James Quotes: Though I have no productive
How heroic to be able to suppress one's vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard.
Alice James Quotes: How heroic to be able
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