“ 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 shap… Alice James
“ One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. Alice James
“ 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
“ One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. Alice James
“ Though I have no productive worth I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity. Alice James
“ 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. Alice James
“ In looking back now, I see how it began in my childhood, altho’ I was not conscious of the necessity until ’67 or ’68 when I broke down first, acutely, and had violent turns of hysteria. As I lay pros… Alice James
“ The fact is, I have been dead so long and it has been simply such a grim shoving of the hours behind me…since the hideous summer of ’78, when I went down to the deep sea, its dark waters closed over m… Alice James
