"It is the middle and pure height and……" — James Agee
"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 the crested tide: what day of the month I do not know, which day of the week I am not sure, far less what hour of the night."
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James Agee
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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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There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he…
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Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
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An instructor once told me that when there's resistence in your body, it's only because of the resistence in your…
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Calgary wins for my coldest New Year's Eve gig. That's when I learned Fahrenheit and Celsius cross at 40 below.…
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It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people…
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His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks…
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If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
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When I walk down the runway, my main goal is to not think about the people watching. The idea of…
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They also explained how the sensors can monitor the levels of acetone on people's breath, and this can be used…
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Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.
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It's been a difficult thing because some great opportunities have come and I've just been holding my breath and praying...…
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