84 Quotes by James Agee

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

[on D. W. Griffith]There is not a man working in movies, or a man who cares for them, who does not owe Griffith more than he owes anybody else.

By the time I left to go downtown for supper, I was at the high point just short of where intoxication begins to droop into clumsiness or melancholy; and the minute I was outdoors the streets, in the very beautiful late of afternoon weather, improved, that if it can be improved, with the feeling of being alone for a little while, and with the sharp, tender enjoyment of a city I am ordinarily tired in.

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

I understand, Catherine," he said.What does he mean that he understands, Catherine wondered. Something I failed to hear, no doubt, she thought, though their words had been so few that she could not imagine what. But she quickly decided not to exasperate him ;by a question; she was sure of his kind intention, and deeply touched by it.

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

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

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

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.