“ 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
“ Small wonder how pitiably we love our home, cling in her skirts at night, rejoice in her wide star-seducing smile, when every star strikes us sick with the fright: do we really exist at all? James Agee
“ How far we all come. How far we all come away from ourselves. So far, so much between, you can never go home again. You can go home, it's good to go home, but you never really get all the way home aga… James Agee
“ God is not here, Hannah said to herself; and made a small cross upon her breastbone, against her blasphemy. James Agee
“ ... understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is the one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine, the one instrument by which liberty, health, and joy… James Agee
“ And somewhat as in blind night, on a mild sea, a sailor may be made aware of an iceberg, fanged and mortal, bearing invisibly near, by the unwarned charm of its breath, nothingness now revealed itself… James Agee
“ You never live an inch without involvement and hurting people and fucking yourself everlastingly. James Agee
“ And a human being whose life is nurtured in an advantage which has accrued from the disadvantage of other human beings, and who prefers that this should remain as it is, is a human being by definition… 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
“ ...but you are too much for them: the weak in courage are strong in cunning; and one by one, you have absorbed and have captured and dishonored, and have distilled of your deliverers the most ruinous… James Agee
“ To come devotedly into the depths of a subject, your respect for it increasing in every step and your whole heart weakening apart with shame upon yourself in your dealing with it : To know at length b… James Agee
