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Seems as unfounded ... to say there isn't a God as to say there is. — James Agee

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

Talking to that fool is like trying to put socks on an octopus! — James Agee

God doesn't believe in the easy way. — James Agee

You get so used to lying that after a while it's hard to remember what the truth is. — Philip Agee

Play the age as comedy if you want to get away with murder. — James Agee

In every child who is born, under no matter what circumstances, and no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again. — James Agee

All of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiance of what is — James Agee

Drama is a gun that doesn't go off. — Jonis Agee

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

You never live an inch without involvement and hurting people and fucking yourself everlastingly. — James Agee

Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we were put in this world to rise above. — James Agee

I feel as I were disintegrating and "growing up", whatever that means, simultaneously. — James Agee

When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, and - do we dare breathe the name - William Faulkner. — Frances Mayes

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition. — James Agee

I suspect the fault ... is in me: that I hate any job on earth, as a job and a hindrance and a semi-suicide. — James Agee

The camera is just a machine, which records with impressive and as a rule very cruel faithfulness. — James Agee

Several tons of dynamite are set off in this picture - none of it under the right people. — James Agee

But when you make love, the dead stay close, fill the bed, lie along the bodies in tiers, sandwiching all their lives with yours. — Jonis Agee

She blew in like a hard west wind, the kind that dropped a man's bones to zero, froze his hair to his skull, and clogged his eyes with ice. — Jonis Agee

There's a lot of true things that happen in our life. I think we see them at the very moment they happen too, then we try to forget about them. — Jonis Agee

A girl's brain is mysterious, but only in a superficial way-a way very exasperating to me. — James Agee

I know I am making the choice most dangerous to an artist in valuing life above art, — James Agee

...and gentle happy and peaceful, tasting the mean goodness of their living like the last of their suppers in their mouths. — James Agee

In this astonishing novel Amirrezvani reminds us what all human hearts suffer and dare. Equal of the Sun is an irresistible novel. — Jonis Agee

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. — James Agee

The goal is the same: life itself; and the price is the same; life itself. — James Agee

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. — James Agee

Some people get where they hope to in this world. Most of us don't. — James Agee

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

Eva, can I pose as Aesop in a cave?"
No, Don. — Jon Agee

This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky. — James Agee

for the other sort of intimate acquaintance, — 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. — James Agee

We all need the waters of the Mercy River. Though they don't run deep, there's usually enough, just enough, for the extravagance of our lives. — Jonis Agee

If the Bible and the microscope do not agee, the microscope is wrong — William Jennings Bryan