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From Quotes by 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 which…
- All of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiance of what is
- 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 .…
- 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,…
- 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…
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