"We are talking now of summer evenings in……" — James Agee
"We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child."
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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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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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Children, taught either years beneath their intelligence or miles wide of relevance to it, or both: their intelligence becomes hopelessly…
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More Child Quotes
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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I…
— Asia Argento
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
— Margaret Atwood
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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,…
— Diane Ackerman
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a…
— Gaston Bachelard
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I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center…
— Michele Bachmann
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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar…
— Enid Bagnold
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A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
— James A. Baldwin
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There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of…
— James A. Baldwin
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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
— HonorÈ De Balzac
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What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?
— HonorÈ De Balzac
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When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I…
— Joyce Banda
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It's not like I want to hop on a bandwagon, because I said it 15 years ago - bringing a…
— Tyra Banks
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