"Of those that are drawn away, each is……" — James Agee
"Of those that are drawn away, each is drawn elsewhere toward another: once more a man and a woman, in a loneliness they are not liable at that time to notice, are tightened together upon a bed: and another family has begun."
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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 Another Family Quotes
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A farm regulated to production of raw commodities is not a farm at all. It is a temporary blip until…
— Joel Salatin
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After a hundred years the son of the King then reigning, who was of another family from that of the…
— Charles Perrault
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The husbands, who sometimes have another family who's grown, are going, Now I can spend time with my baby. Oh…
— Jackie Collins
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Thanksgiving is the day when you turn to another family member and say, 'How long has Mom been drinking like…
— David Letterman
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Your first family is your blood family and you always be true to that. That means something. But there's another…
— Dennis Lehane
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...the world is a giant community now. This excuse of distance, time, doesn't work...We're all so connected. We can't spend…
— Ralph Fiennes
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I'm just a step away I'm just a breath away Losin' my faith today (Fallin' off the edge today) I…
— Skillet
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There is only one race on this planet and that is the human race. There are many ethnic families and…
— Jordan Blake Michiels
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I'm just a step away I'm just a breath away Losin' my faith today (Fallin' off the edge today) I…
— Rachel
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On Sunday the 26th of January this happened to me: i was with my mate and we were going swimming…
— Crystal Sawyer
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It's just another war, Just another family torn,(Falling from my faith today),Just a step from the edge,Just another day in…
— Skillet
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At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot - it was a land dispute…
— Jack Bowman
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