"A girl's brain is mysterious, but only in……" — James Agee
"A girl's brain is mysterious, but only in a superficial way-a way very exasperating to me."
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40 Quotes by James Agee
James Agee has 40 quotes on this site.
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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…
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In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different,…
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Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you…
— Margaret Atwood
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All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the…
— Diane Ackerman
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As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child,…
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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you…
— Francis Bacon
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All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences,…
— Roger Bacon
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Working out is incredibly boring. I swear it's true that the bigger your muscles get, the fewer brain cells you…
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One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.
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The nuclear generator of brain sludge is television.
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I personally battled with my own body image for years. I used to tell myself, You can't wear anything sleeveless…
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