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"Misery suffered did not justify misery to come."
"While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done."
"A saw by itself holds no value, but when coupled with your labor can clear forests."
"If you wrote something for which someone sent you a cheque, if you cashed the cheque and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented."
"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot, reading is the creative center of a writer's life, you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you."
"Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure."
"I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it."
Explore more quotes by Alice James
"Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul."
"The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?"
"What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading."
"You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied."
"One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."
"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."
"I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."
"I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more."
"Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity."
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