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James Agee has 40 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.
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God doesn't believe in the easy way.
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You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.
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This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.
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We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself…
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In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race…
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A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.
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It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream,…
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The goal is the same: life itself; and the price is the same; life itself.
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Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine, the one…
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Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to…
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You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment,…
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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
— Gaston Bachelard
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Infants and young children are not just sitting twiddling their thumbs, waiting for their parents to teach them to read and do…
— David Elkind
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Nowadays we have so many things that take our attention - phones, Internet - and perhaps we need to disconnect from those…
— Nicholas Hoult
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Look at the things around you, the immediate world around you. If you are alive, it will mean something to you, and…
— Paul Strand
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I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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She felt a board indifference toward the immediate world around her toward other children and adults alike. She took it as a…
— Ayn Rand
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For in the immediate world, everything is to be discerned, for him who can discern it, and central and simply, without either…
— James Agee
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Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could…
— Unknown Author
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