All James Agee Quotes
- I know the most important faculty to develop is one for hard, continuous and varied work and living; but the difference between knowing this and… Abysmal
- A girl's brain is mysterious, but only in a superficial way-a way very exasperating to me. Brain
- One thing I feel is this: that a great deal of poetry is the product of adolescence-or of an emotionally adolescent frame of mind: and… Adolescence
- It is the middle and pure height and whole of summer and a summer night, the held breath, of a planet's year; high shored sleeps… Breath
- I believe that every human being is potentially capable within his 'limits' of fully 'realizing' his potentialities; that this, his being cheated and choked of… All
- 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
- Just spunk won't be enough; you've got to have gumption. Gumption
- 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 .… Accelerating
- ...but you are too much for them: the weak in courage are strong in cunning; and one by one, you have absorbed and have captured… Absorbed
- And no matter what, there's not one thing in this world *or* the next that we can do or hope or guess at or wish… All
- Some people get where they hope to in this world. Most of us don't. Hope
- For in the immediate world, everything is to be discerned, for him who can discern it, and central and simply, without either dissection into science,… All
- And somewhat as in blind night, on a mild sea, a sailor may be made aware of an iceberg, fanged and mortal, bearing invisibly near,… Amber
- And a human being whose life is nurtured in an advantage which has accrued from the disadvantage of other human beings, and who prefers that… Accrued
- Several tons of dynamite are set off in this picture - none of it under the right people. Dynamite