As a whole part of "psychological education" it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuable; also that "adjustment" to a sick and insane environment is of itself not "health" but sickness and insanity. James Agee American Writer More James Agee Quotes 0
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. James Agee American Writer More James Agee Quotes 0
Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine, the one instrument by which liberty, health, and joy may be shaped . . . in the individual, and in the race. James Agee American Writer More James Agee Quotes 0
He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things: a one-track mind near the track's end of pure insanity; mulish imperturbability under the wildest of circumstances; how dead a human being can get and still be alive . . . James Agee American Writer More James Agee Quotes 0
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family, Shorter Fiction. James Agee American Writer More James Agee Quotes 0