By some chance, here they are, all on this earth; and who shall ever tell the sorrow of being on this earth,… — 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… — James Agee Copy Share Image
In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race… — James Agee Copy Share Image
“I hear my father; I need never fear. I hear my mother; I shall never be lonely, or want for love. When… — 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,… — James Agee Copy Share Image
“In every child who is born, under no matter what circumstances, and no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race… — 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
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