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It is so comical to hear oneself called old even at ninety I suppose!

Truly nothing is to be expected but the unexpected.

In looking back now, I see how it began in my childhood, altho’ I was not conscious of the necessity...

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The Diary of Alice James

The fact is, I have been dead so long and it has been simply such a grim shoving of the hours behind...

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The Diary of Alice James

One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any h...

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One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experien...

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The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of...

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Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?

If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribblin...

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Though I have no productive worth I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.

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Alice James

Novelist

Born: 1848-08-07

Died: 1892-03-06

Alice James (7 August, 1848 - 6 March 1892) was a U.S. diarist, the sister of Henry James and William James. She is known primarily for the posthumously published diary she kept in the last years of her life.More