James Agee Quotes (15 Quotes)

Now is the night one blue dew.

He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things a one-track mind near the track's end of pure insanity mulish imperturbability under the wildest of circumstances how dead a human being can get and still be alive ...

When he ran from a cop, his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to flogged-piston sprint ... were as distinct and as soberly in order as an automatic gearshift.

This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.

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Several tons of dynamite are set off in this picture - none of it under the right people.

Children, taught either years beneath their intelligence or miles wide of relevance to it, or both their intelligence becomes hopelessly bewildered, drawn off its centers, bored, or atrophied.

God doesn't believe in the easy way.

We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.

Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine, the one instrument by which liberty, health, and joy may be shaped ... in the individual, and in the race.

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

As a whole part of 'psychological education' it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuable also that 'adjustment' to a sick and insane environment is of itself not 'health' but sickness and insanity.

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.

It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.

In every child who is born, under no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God.