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Dynamite Quote by James Agee

“Several tons of dynamite are set off in this picture - none of it under the right people.” quote by James Agee — Download Open image

“Several tons of dynamite are set off in this picture - none of it under the right people.”

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By some chance, here they are, all on this earth; and who shall ever tell the sorrow of being on this earth, lying, on quilts, on the grass in a summer evening, among the sounds of the night. May God bless my people, my uncle, my aunt, my mother, my good father, oh, remember them kindly in their time of…

The camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time.

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“Yes, for every child, rich or poor, there's a time of running through a dark place; and there's no word for a child's fear,…

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“Kate, the mother of thirteen, is forty-nine; delicately made; her skin creamlike where the weather has not got at it. She is smaller than several of her children. Her legs and feet, like those of most women in this country, are beautifully shaped by shoelessness on the earth. Her eyes, which are watchful not at all for herself but for…

“The passion for vengeance is a terrifyingly strong one, very easily and probably inevitably wrought up by such evidence [of atrocities], even at our distance. But however well aware I am of its strength, and that in its full immediate force and expression it is in some respects irrelevant to moral inquiry, I doubt that it is ever to be…

It's kind of a test, Mary, and it's the only kind that amounts to anything. When something rotten like this happens, then you have…

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The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.

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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 the stream, to hook…

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“God is not here, Hannah said to herself; and made a small cross upon her breastbone, against her blasphemy.”

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Well, now, some people learn a little quicker than others. It's nice to learn fast but it's nice to take your time too.

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The artist's task is not to alter the world as the eye sees it into a world of aesthetic reality, but to perceive the…

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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, the one instrument by…

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I seriously think I could have sat in the middle of the kitchen floor rubbing two sticks together over a pile of dynamite blocks…

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Evolution cannot be brought about by the use of dynamite.

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Take a young man from Gaza living in the most horrendous conditions - most of it imposed by Israel - who straps dynamite around himself and then throws himself into a crowd of Israelis. I've never condoned or agreed with it, but at least it is understandable as the desperate wish of a human being who feels himself being crowded…

If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and…

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Because mothers make us, because they map our emotional terrain before we even know we are capable of having an emotional terrain, they know just where to stick the dynamite. With a few small power plays - a skeptical comment, the withholding of approval or praise - a mother can devastate a daughter. Decades of subtle undermining can stunt a…

Commercialism is the blemish on the fair face of American life. Fighting against the terrible conditions of the explorer and pioneer, our forefathers had little time to think of beauty. Hearts and heads became as hardened to the more gracious things of life as did their bodies against physical hardship. Little by little, as nature yielded before the dynamite of…

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Babies in silk hats playing with dynamite.

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People are like sticks of dynamite. The power is on the inside, but nothing happens until the fuse gets lit.

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Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We…

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My family has always called me 'Lay Lay,' and my dad used to always call me 'Dynamite Termite' because I was really short and small and I hated to be still. I would never stop.

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