James Agee
Author profile
born
in Knoxville, Tennessee, The United States
November 27, 1909
died
May 16, 1955
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A Death in the Family
— published 1957 — 39 editions |
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
by James Agee, Walker Evans — published 1939 — 24 editions |
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Agee on Film: Criticism and Comment on the Movies
by James Agee, Martin Scorsese , David Denby — published 1960 — 2 editions |
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family, and Shorter Fiction (Library of America #159)
by James Agee, Michael Sragow — published 2005 |
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The Morning Watch
— published 1950 — 5 editions |
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Letters of James Agee to Father Flye
by James Agee, James Harold Flye — published 1971 — 4 editions |
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Film Writing and Selected Journalism: Agee on Film/uncollected film writing/The Night of the Hunter/journalism and film reviews (Library of America #160)
by James Agee, Michael Sragow — published 2005 |
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Brooklyn is Southeast of the Island: Travel Notes
by James Agee, Jonathan Lethem — published 2005 |
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Selected Poems
by James Agee, Andrew Hudgins — published 2008 — 2 editions |
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Selected Journalism
by James Agee, Paul Ashdown — published 2005 |
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“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.”
― James Agee, 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.”
― James Agee, A Death in the Family
“And no matter what, there's not one thing in this world *or* the next that we can do or hope or guess at or wish or pray that can change it or help it one iota. Because whatever is, is. That's all. And all there is now is to be ready for it, strong enough for it, whatever it may be. That's all. That's all that matters. It's all that matters because it's all that's possible. ”
― James Agee, A Death in the Family
― James Agee, A Death in the Family
“...but you are too much for them: the weak in courage are strong in cunning; and one by one, you have absorbed and have captured and dishonored, and have distilled of your deliverers the most ruinous of all poisons; people hear Beethoven in concert halls, or over a bridge game, or to relax; Cézannes are hung on walls, reproduced, in natural wood frames; van Gogh is the man who cut off his ear and whose yellows became recently popular in window decoration.”
― James Agee
― James Agee
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