3 quotes by 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 degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.”— 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