I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more. Alice James More Quotes by Alice James More Quotes From Alice James 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 dying funny death How heroic to be able to suppress one's vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard. Alice James vanity able games Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected. Alice James unexpected expected 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 husband loyalty children Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity. Alice James indestructible quantity certain One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. Alice James women doctors memorable 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. Alice James luxury struggle attitude 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 emotion men needs The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and soak perpetually in conscious complacency. Alice James complacency gains conscious 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 pain soul fall 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 reflection writing thinking How fatally the entire want of humor cripples the mind. Alice James humor mind want I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am. Alice James humorous stupid education I wonder, whether, if I had had any education I should have been more, or less, of a fool than I am. It would have deprived me surely of those exquisite moments of mental flatulence which every now and then inflate the cerebral vacuum with a delicious sense of latent possibilities-of stretching oneself to cosmic limits, and who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge? Alice James giving-up dream reality Ah! Those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! Are they unhappy, by the way? Alice James unhappy people way 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. Alice James proportion given form 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 failure luck lying 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 vulgarity-is trials loss What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading. Alice James reading giving book 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 density shapes book
