Quote by: James Agee

...but you are too much for them: the weak in courage are strong in cunning; and one by one, you have absorbed and have captured and dishonored, and have distilled of your deliverers the most ruinous of all poisons; people hear Beethoven in concert halls, or over a bridge game, or to relax; Cézannes are hung on walls, reproduced, in natural wood frames; van Gogh is the man who cut off his ear and whose yellows became recently popular in window decoration.


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Author Bio


  • NameJames Agee
  • DescriptionAmerican author, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic
  • AliasesJames Rufus Agee
  • BornNovember 27, 1909
  • DiedMay 16, 1955
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionScreenwriter; Poet; Author; Novelist; Journalist; Autobiographer
  • WorksA Death In The Family