James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Fa Quotes

A collection of quotes by James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Fa.

James Agee (1909-1955) was an American writer and film critic, best known for his book "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" (1941). Collaborating with photographer Walker Evans, the work documented the lives of impoverished Alabama sharecroppers during the Great Depression. Agee's powerful and lyrical prose explored the human condition and social inequality, offering a deeply empathetic portrait of the subjects. His book remains a significant piece of American literature, admired for its honesty and the way it challenges conventional narrative forms. Agee also wrote screenplays, including the acclaimed film "The African Queen" (1951).

As a whole part of psychological education it needs to be re

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.

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Insanity

It seems to me curious, not to say obscene and thoroughly te

It seems to me curious, not to say obscene and thoroughly terrifying, that it could occur to an association of human beings drawn together through need and chance and for profit into a company, an organ of journalism, to pry intimately into the lives of an undefended and appallingly damaged group of human beings, an ignorant and helpless rural family, for the purpose of parading the nakedness, disadvantage and humiliation of these lives before another group of human beings, in the name of science, of

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