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James Agee

Saturday 20th of April 2024

Adapting to circumstances The human organism, however, is remarkably tenacious of life, and miraculously adapted to it. In the course of adapting, it may be forced to sacrifice a few side issues, such as the capacity of thinking, of feeling emotion, or of discerning any possibilities of joy or goodness in living: but it lives. James Agee, Cotton Tenants: Three Families © 2015 Kwiple.com
Inequality And a human being whose life is nurtured in an advantage which has accrued from the disadvantage of other human beings, and who prefers that this should remain as it is, is a human being by definition only, having much more in common with the bedbug, the tapeworm, the cancer, and the scavengers of the deep sea. James Agee, Cotton Tenants: Three Families © 2015 Kwiple.com
 
Tradition You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition. James Agee © 2015 Kwiple.com