"The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes."

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Source : James Agee (2005). “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: A Death in the Family, & Shorter Fiction”

James Agee

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“To me, sexy is the confident energy a person produces. sexy is the comfortable feeling of being who you are. sexy is not just having beautiful lips, legs and arms; its beyond that. sexy is soul.”

Source : "Karina Smirnoff Nude In Playboy", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 13, 2011.
“Not till the end of the war will there be any time for art or love or magic again. Perhaps never again.”

Source : Mary Butts (2008). “The Journals of Mary Butts”, p.58, Yale University Press
“For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.”
“I pre-suppose, of course, a reader who is willing to learn something new and therefore to think for himself.”
“Here is the life of prayer, when in or with the Spirit, a man being made sensible of sin, and how to come to the Lord for mercy; he comes, I say, in the strength of the Spirit, and crieth Father. That one word spoken in faith is better than a thousand prayers, as men call them, written and read, in a formal, cold, lukewarm way.”
“No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.”
“Thank you to all for your prayers and good wishes. It gave me the strength to persevere and warmed my heart.”
“Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.”

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