84 Quotes by James Agee

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

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.

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

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?

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

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

To own your life is hardly goodUnless you own your livelihood:To own your livelihood's as badIf, in exchange, your life is had.

... 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 may be shaped or shaped towards, in the individual, and in the race.

Now I am more nearly a grown member of the human race..she thought she had never before had a chance to realize the strength human beings have, to endure;she loved and revered all those who had ever suffered, even those who had failed to endure