"The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?"

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Source : Alice James (1981). “The Death and Letters of Alice James: Selected Correspondence”, Berkeley : University of California Press

Alice James

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“I do think that the abiding mystery of my origins has definitely had a profound effect upon my writing. There is that thing in the back of my mind where I think I don't really know who I am. And it may make it a little easier to shift around in my narrative voice.”

Source : "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 18, 2011.
“Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.”
“I'm a fairly religious person, so I believe in some things that sound a little crazy I'm sure, depending on where you're standing. I believe in leaving room for things that you can't explain in the universe, and you don't have to be religious to leave room for those things.”
“I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.”

Source : Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 24, 2010.
“The most important educational need of the child is to feel himself worthy of love and a worthy dispenser of love. If infants learn what love is, they can go through life with sanity and happiness.”
“Marriage is the most basic expression of the vocation to love that all men and women have as persons made in God's image.”
“Not only are we harried by time, we seem unable, despite a thousand generations, even to get used to it. We are always amazed at itâ€“how fast it goes, how slowly it goes, how much of it is gone. Where, we cry, has the time gone? We arenâ€™t adapted to it, not at home in it. If that is so, it may appear as a proof, or at least a powerful suggestion, that eternity exists and is our home.”
“One of the things I'm concerned about is that I really want to make sure the races of all the characters are kept. I don't like it when black characters become white in movies, or things like that.”

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