“How far we all come. How far we all come away from ourselves. So far, so much between, you can never go home again. You can go home, it's good to go home, but you never really get all the… — James Agee Copy Share Image
How far we all come. How far we all come away from ourselves. So far, so much between, you can never go home again. You can go home, it's good to go home, but you never really get all the… — James Agee Copy Share Image
By some chance, here they are, all on this earth; and who shall ever tell the sorrow of being on this earth, lying, on… — James Agee Copy Share Image
The camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time. — James Agee Copy Share Image
“Yes, for every child, rich or poor, there's a time of running through a dark place; and there's no word for a child's fear,… — James Agee Copy Share Image
“Kate, the mother of thirteen, is forty-nine; delicately made; her skin creamlike where the weather has not got at it. She is smaller than… — James Agee Copy Share Image
“The passion for vengeance is a terrifyingly strong one, very easily and probably inevitably wrought up by such evidence [of atrocities], even at our… — James Agee Copy Share Image
It's kind of a test, Mary, and it's the only kind that amounts to anything. When something rotten like this happens, then you have… — James Agee Copy Share Image
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… — James Agee Copy Share Image
“God is not here, Hannah said to herself; and made a small cross upon her breastbone, against her blasphemy.” — James Agee Copy Share Image
Well, now, some people learn a little quicker than others. It's nice to learn fast but it's nice to take your time too. — James Agee Copy Share Image
The artist's task is not to alter the world as the eye sees it into a world of aesthetic reality, but to perceive the… — James Agee Copy Share Image
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… — James Agee Copy Share Image
![“The passion for vengeance is a terrifyingly strong one, very easily and probably inevitably wrought up by such evidence [of atrocities], even at our distance. But however well aware I am of its strength, and that in its full immediate force and expression it is in some respects irrelevant to moral…” quote by James Agee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dd6/james-agee-9167_justice_the-passion-for-vengeance-is-a-terrifyin_162590.jpg)
