Quotes by : James Agee

Small wonder how pitiably we love our home, cling in her skirts at night, rejoice in her wide star-seducing....

God doesn't believe in the easy way.

...and gentle happy and peaceful, tasting the mean goodness of their living like the last of their suppers....

And a human being whose life is nurtured in an advantage which has accrued from the disadvantage of other....

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

...but you are too much for them: the weak in courage are strong in cunning; and one by one, you have....

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

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

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

To come devotedly into the depths of a subject, your respect for it increasing in every step and your....