It's kind of a test, Mary, and it's the only kind that amounts to anything. When something rotten like this happens, then you have your choice. You start to really be alive, or you start to die. That's all.
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
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.
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…
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.
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 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.
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…
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…
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