James Agee Quotes (5 quotations)
1. He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things: a one-track mind near the track's end of pure insanity; mulish imperturbability under the wildest of circumstances; how dead a human being can get and still be alive; an awe-inspiring sort of patience and power to endure, proper to granite but uncanny in flesh and blood. - James Agee
2. The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes. - James Agee
3. This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky. - James Agee
4. 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
5. 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. - James Agee
2. The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes. - James Agee
3. This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky. - James Agee
4. 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
5. 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. - James Agee
