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James Agee
American
Novelist
About the author
We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.
James Agee,
American
Novelist
#Time
#Now
#Talking
#Summer
You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.
James Agee,
American
Novelist
#Tradition
This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.
James Agee,
American
Novelist
#Open
#Sky
The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.
James Agee,
American
Novelist
#Confusion
Several tons of dynamite are set off in this picture - none of it under the right people.
James Agee,
American
Novelist
#Right
#People
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.
James Agee,
American
Novelist
#Play
#Luck
#Lie
#Adventure
God doesn't believe in the easy way.
James Agee,
American
Novelist
#God