How far we all come. How far we all come away from ourselves. So far, so much between, you can never go home again. You can go home, it's good to go home, but you never really get all the way home again in your life. ... whatever it was and however good it was, it wasn't what you once had been, and had lost, and could never have again, and once in a while, once in a long time, you remembered, and knew how far you were away, and it hit you hard enough, that little while it lasted, to break your heart.
Just spunk won't be enough; you've got to have gumption. - James Agee
Just spunk won't be enough; you've got to have gumption.
- James Agee
And somewhat as in blind night, on a mild sea, a sailor may be made aware of an iceberg, fanged and mortal, bearing invisibly near, by the unwarned c… - James Agee
And somewhat as in blind night, on a mild sea, a sailor may be made aware of an iceberg, fanged and mortal, bearing invisibly near, by the unwarned c…
The goal is the same: life itself; and the price is the same; life itself. - James Agee
The goal is the same: life itself; and the price is the same; life itself.
Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense. - James Agee
Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.
You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition. - James Agee
You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.
A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children. - James Agee
A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.
You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning o… - James Agee
You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning o…
Some people get where they hope to in this world. Most of us don't. - James Agee
Some people get where they hope to in this world. Most of us don't.
It is the middle and pure height and whole of summer and a summer night, the held breath, of a planet's year; high shored sleeps the crested tide: wh… - James Agee
It is the middle and pure height and whole of summer and a summer night, the held breath, of a planet's year; high shored sleeps the crested tide: wh…
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