Quotes & anectdotes from the wise, the foolish, the courageous & the drunk

Alice James Author

  • Gender: Female
  • Citizenship: United States
  • Born: Aug 7, 1848
  • Died: Mar 6, 1892

Alice James was 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.

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. failure

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

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