James Agee

I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or "literary" diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large read more

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.

This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.

This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.

As a whole part of "psychological education" it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuable; also that read more

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.

We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised read more

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.

God doesn't believe in the easy way.

God doesn't believe in the easy way.