Alice James Quotes

1848-1892, American Diarist, Sister of Henry, William James
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“I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.”
Education
“The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?”
Death and Dying
“I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.”
Doctors
“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.”
Vulgarity
“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.”
Goodness