James Agee
Born
in Knoxville, Tennessee, The United States
November 27, 1909
Died
May 16, 1955
Genre
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A Death in the Family
190 editions
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published
1957
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
by
97 editions
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published
1941
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Cotton Tenants: Three Families
by
14 editions
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published
2013
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Agee on Film: Criticism and Comment on the Movies
by
27 editions
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published
1960
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men / A Death in the Family / Shorter Fiction
by
4 editions
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published
2005
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The Morning Watch
32 editions
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published
1950
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Letters of James Agee to Father Flye
by
39 editions
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published
1971
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Film Writing and Selected Journalism
by
6 editions
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published
2005
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Brooklyn Is: Southeast of the Island: Travel Notes
5 editions
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published
2005
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Collected Poems
19 editions
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published
1968
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“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?”
― Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
― Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
“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. And what's it all for? All I tried to be, all I ever wanted and went away for, what's it all for?
Just one way, you do get back home. You have a boy or a girl of your own and now and then you remember, and you know how they feel, and it's almost the same as if you were your own self again, as young as you could remember.
And God knows he was lucky, so many ways, and God knows he was thankful. Everything was good and better than he could have hoped for, better than he ever deserved; only, 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.”
― A Death in the Family
Just one way, you do get back home. You have a boy or a girl of your own and now and then you remember, and you know how they feel, and it's almost the same as if you were your own self again, as young as you could remember.
And God knows he was lucky, so many ways, and God knows he was thankful. Everything was good and better than he could have hoped for, better than he ever deserved; only, 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.”
― A Death in the Family
“And a human being whose life is nurtured in an advantage which has accrued from the disadvantage of other human beings, and who prefers that this should remain as it is, is a human being by definition only, having much more in common with the bedbug, the tapeworm, the cancer, and the scavengers of the deep sea.”
― Cotton Tenants: Three Families
― Cotton Tenants: Three Families
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