| 11 Famous Quotes by James Agee
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“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.”
Books (first lines) Quotes Source: A Death in the Family [1957]
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“When he ran from a cop his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to flogged-piston sprint were as distinct and as soberly in order as an automatic gearshift.”
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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 which liberty, health, and joy may be shaped . . . in the individual, and in the race.”
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“This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.”
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“Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family, Shorter Fiction”
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“The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.”
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“As a whole part of "psychological education" it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuable; also that "adjustment" to a sick and insane environment is of itself not "health" but sickness and insanity.”
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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 it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.”
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“I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or "literary" diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words must be alive.”
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“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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“God doesn't believe in the easy way.”
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James Agee Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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