--- title: "1 Play Age Quotes By James Agee" description: "1 Play Age quotes by James Agee. Plus more from James Agee and more Play Age sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f47/james-agee-9167_film_play-the-age-as-comedy-if-you-want-to-ge_1799583.jpg" --- > [“... Play the age as comedy if you want to get away with murder.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-agee/play-the-age-as-comedy-if-you-want-to-get-away-with-murder/) [James Agee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-agee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f47/james-agee-9167_film_play-the-age-as-comedy-if-you-want-to-ge_1799583.jpg) ## More by James Agee > [By some chance, here they are, all on this earth; and who shall ever tell the sorrow of being on this earth, lying, on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-agee/by-some-chance-here-they-are-all-on-this-earth-and-who-shall-ever/) [James Agee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-agee/) > [The camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-agee/the-camera-seems-to-me-next-to-unassisted-and-weaponless/) [James Agee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-agee/) > [“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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-agee/yes-for-every-child-rich-or-poor-there-s-a-time-of-running-through-a/) [James Agee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-agee/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-agee/kate-the-mother-of-thirteen-is-forty-nine-delicately-made-her-skin/) [James Agee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-agee/) > [ “The passion for vengeance is a terrifyingly strong one, very easily and probably inevitably wrought up by such evidence \[of atrocities\], even at our… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-agee/the-passion-for-vengeance-is-a-terrifyingly-strong-one-very-easily/) [James Agee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-agee/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-agee/it-s-kind-of-a-test-mary-and-it-s-the-only-kind-that-amounts-to/) [James Agee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-agee/) > [The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-agee/the-mere-attempt-to-examine-my-own-confusion-would-consume-volumes/) [James Agee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-agee/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-agee/it-is-a-peculiar-part-of-the-good-photographer-s-adventure-to-know/) [James Agee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-agee/) > [“God is not here, Hannah said to herself; and made a small cross upon her breastbone, against her blasphemy.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-agee/god-is-not-here-hannah-said-to-herself-and-made-a-small-cross-upon/) [James Agee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-agee/) > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-agee/well-now-some-people-learn-a-little-quicker-than-others-it-s-nice-to/) [James Agee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-agee/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-agee/the-artist-s-task-is-not-to-alter-the-world-as-the-eye-sees-it-into-a/) [James Agee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-agee/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-agee/understanding-and-action-proceeding-from-understanding-and-guided-by/) [James Agee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-agee/) > [This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-agee/this-continent-an-open-palm-spread-frank-before-the-sky/) [James Agee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-agee/) > [You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-agee/you-ve-got-to-bear-it-in-mind-that-nobody-that-ever-lived-is/) [James Agee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-agee/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-agee/he-used-this-great-sad-motionless-face-to-suggest-various-related/) [James Agee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-agee/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/play-age/james-agee/#itemlist", "name": "1 Play Age Quotes By James Agee", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“... 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