"Just spunk won't be enough; you've got to…" — James Agee

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40 Quotes by James Agee

James Agee has 40 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.
God doesn't believe in the easy way.
You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.
This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.
We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised…
In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the…
A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.
It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in…
The goal is the same: life itself; and the price is the same; life itself.
Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine,…
Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good…
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 Gumption Quotes

This quote is filed under Gumption Quotes, one of 17 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Healing the wounds of the earth and its people does not require saintliness or a political party, only gumption and… — Paul Hawken
When I was a kid, people who got divorced were people who had no gumption. — Phil Donahue
There are times when each of us has to have some gumption to take a stand as to what we… — James E. Faust
A person filled with gumption doesn’t sit about stewing about things. He’s at the front of the train of his… — Robert M. Pirsig
When the worms are scarce, what does a hen do? Does she stop scratching? She does not. She scratches all… — B. C. Forbes
You know, sometimes I don't understand what's wrong with us. This is just about the most creative and imaginative country… — Boris Johnson
The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose… — Robert Reich
It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having… — Jessamyn West
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn’t can never know what it is. So there… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Everything will come in due course, if you have the gumption to wait for it. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Since Mom wasn't exactly the most useful person in the world, one lesson I learned at an early age was… — Jeannette Walls
Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done. — Seamus Heaney

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