Alice James
Alice James
Alice Jameswas an American 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth7 August 1848
CountryUnited States of America
doctor greater human interview suppose
I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
feet soul littles
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?
lying failure luck
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
loss vulgarity-is trials
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.
unexpected expected
Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.
reading book giving
What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.
dream giving-up reality
Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?
sick selfishness four
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.
age comic ninety
It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!
educational should-have intelligence
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.
certain quantity indestructible
Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.
men needs emotion
You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.
attitude struggle luxury
Destitution and excessive luxury develop apparently the same ideals, the same marauding attitude towards mankind, the intensity of struggle for material goods, -- surely showing how perfect is the meeting of extremes.
proportion given form
What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find ourselves therein, -- form given to what was vague, what slumbered stirred to life.