"And somewhat as in blind night, on a……" — James Agee
"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, by the unwarned charm of its breath, nothingness now revealed itself: that permanent night upon which the stars in their expiring generations are less than the glinting of gnats, and nebulae, more trivial than winter breath; that darkness in which eternity lies bent and pale, a dead snake in a jar, and infinity is the sparkling of a wren blown out to sea; that inconceivable chasm of invulnerable silence in which cataclysms of galaxies rave mute as amber."
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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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More Amber Quotes
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The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.
— Al Stewart
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Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has…
— Richard Chenevix Trench
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Well, Amber [Heard] is still raising her eyebrow at me because I said that I've been 180 miles per hour…
— Nicolas Cage
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There are little pockets of old time in London, where things and places stay the same, like bubble in amber.
— Neil Gaiman
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I have so many [on-set Glee BFFs]. I love Kevin (McHale). I love Amber (Riley); Amber and I are essentially…
— Alex Newell
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But who is this, what thing of sea or land,- Female of sex it seems,- That so bedeck'd, ornate, and…
— John Milton
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Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved.
— Richard Chenevix Trench
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If any man has drunk a little too deeply from the cup of physical pleasure; if he has spent too…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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The first thing I did when I made a little bit of money as a singer was to buy myself…
— Renee Fleming
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Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The…
— John Milton
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The winter will be short, the summer long, The autumn amber-hued, sunny and hot, Tasting of cider and of scuppernong;…
— Elinor Wylie
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When it came time to make the audiobook, Audible did an ingenious thing: they asked both Wil Wheaton and Amber…
— John Scalzi
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