James Agee quotes and words of wisdom

". 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."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes."
Found in the topic Confuse.

"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 ..."
Found in the topic Comedy.

"Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is one weapon against the world"s bombardment, the one medicine, the one instrument by which liberty, health, and joy may be shaped ... in the individual, and in the race."
Found in the topic Understand.

Interesting Quotes

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.Harry Emerson Fosdick - US clergyman (1878 - 1969)

For every problem, there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong.Henry Louis Mencken