Quotes by James Agee

James Agee

I’ll do what little I can in writing. Only it will be very little. I’m not capable of it; and if I were, you would not go near it at all. For if you did, you would hardly bear to live

Bears

Littles

Writing

I’m very anxious not to fall into archaism or ‘literary’ diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words must be alive.

Fall

Vocabulary

Writing

In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again: and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life; toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God.

Children

Life

Peace

Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to be said for recognizing that fact and for using both methods?

Artist

Facts

Writing

It is a peculiar part of the good photographer’s adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.

Lying

Photography

Travel

It is clear enough by now to most people that the camera never lies is a foolish saying. Yet it is doubtful whether most people realize how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is.

Liars

Lying

People

It is probably well on the conservative side to estimate that during the past ten to fifteen years the camera has destroyed a thousand pairs of eyes, corrupted ten thousand, and seriously deceived a hundred thousand, for every one pair that it has opened, and taught.

Eye

Past

Years

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: what day of the month I do not know, which day of the week I am not sure, far less what hour of the night.

Night

Sleep

Summer

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.

Adversity

Choices

Rotten

Just spunk won’t be enough; you’ve got to have gumption.

Gumption

Spunk

Success

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Acceptance

Addiction

Adversity

Art

Artist

Atheism

Bears

Belief

Believe

Blow

Brain

Cameras

Cancer

Children

Choices

Confusing

Confusion

Consciousness

Cop

Cutting

Dangerous

Definitions

Differences

Dry Up

Education

Effort

Errors

Eye

Facts

Fall

Family

Frank

Girl

Goal

Gumption

Hate

Heart

Home

Hope

Important

Insanity

Intelligence

Jobs

Joy

June

Justice

Kissing

Knowing

Liars

Life

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Quotes by James Agee

James Agee

I’ll do what little I can in writing. Only it will be very little. I’m not capable of it; and if I were, you would not go near it at all. For if you did, you would hardly bear to live

I’m very anxious not to fall into archaism or ‘literary’ diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words must be alive.

Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to be said for recognizing that fact and for using both methods?

It is a peculiar part of the good photographer’s adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.

It is clear enough by now to most people that the camera never lies is a foolish saying. Yet it is doubtful whether most people realize how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is.

It is probably well on the conservative side to estimate that during the past ten to fifteen years the camera has destroyed a thousand pairs of eyes, corrupted ten thousand, and seriously deceived a hundred thousand, for every one pair that it has opened, and taught.

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: what day of the month I do not know, which day of the week I am not sure, far less what hour of the night.

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.

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