You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

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About James Agee

James Rufus Agee ( AY-jee; November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) was an American novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic. In the 1940s, writing for Time, he was one of the most influential film critics in the United States. His autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family (1957),...

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In every child who is born under no matter what circumstances and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again, and in him, too, once more, and each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life: toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terrorism, and of God.

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

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I like sports bars. Sports bars are great because they collect all of the people I don't want to hang out with, and put them in one room.

—Demetri Martin

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I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.

—Ring Lardner

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It seems that it is only the recent West that has deemed it unnecessary to "initiate" young men. Otherwise, culture after culture felt that if the young man were not introduced to "the mysteries," he would not know what to do with his pain and would almost always abuse his power. It looks like they were right.

—Richard Rohr

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It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.

—Jerry Garcia

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The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.

—Ashley Montagu

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