All James Agee Quotes
- The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes. Attempt
- God doesn't believe in the easy way. Belief
- You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition. Break
- This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky. Continent
- 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. Child
- In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again:… Born
- A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children. Children
- 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,… Adventure
- The goal is the same: life itself; and the price is the same; life itself. Addiction
- 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… Action
- Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to be said for… Artist
- 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 neck,… Any
- 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,… Atrophied
- I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or 'literary' diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words must… Alive
- I know I am making the choice most dangerous to an artist in valuing life above art, Art
- Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense. Certain
- By some chance, here they are, all on this earth; and who shall ever tell the sorrow of being on this earth, lying, on quilts,… All
- All of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiance of what is All
- I'll do what little I can in writing. Only it will be very little. I'm not capable of it; and if I were, you would… All
- 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… Adjustment
- 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… Alive
- 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 your… Adversity
- Seems as unfounded ... to say there isn't a God as to say there is. Atheism
- Of those that are drawn away, each is drawn elsewhere toward another: once more a man and a woman, in a loneliness they are not… Another Family
- I prefer a little free speech to no free speech at all; but how many have free speech or the chance or the mind for… All