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.
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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.James Agee
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.
James Agee
Now is the night one blue dew.
James Agee
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.
James Agee
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.
James Agee
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