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A Death In The Family by James Agee
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"I can say some ever so big words," Rufus said. "Want to hear? The Dominant Primordrial Beast."
“[…] How still we see thee lie!
Above thy deep and dreamless sleep,
The silent stars go by;
Yet in thy dark streets shineth
The everlasting light;
The hopes and fears of all the years
Are met in thee tonight.”
“O Little Town of Bethlehem,” by Phillips Brooks, 1868.
"Talking to that fool is like trying to put socks on an octopus!"
"As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport."
A Death In The Family,
James Agee
Shakespeare, King Lear
“All I want is to warn you that a lot worse is yet to come than you can imagine yet, so for God's sake brace yourself for it and try to hold yourself together. [..] It's a kind of test, .. and it's the only kind that amounts to anything. When something rotten like this happens. Then you have your choice. You start to really be alive, or you start to die. That's all."
A Death In The Family,
James Agee
“How very swiftly life goes!”
A Death In The Family,
James Agee
“Her soul is beginning to come of age, she thought; and within those moments she herself became much older, much nearer her own death, and was content to be.”
A Death In The Family, James Agee
“And God knows he was lucky, so many ways, and God knows he was thankful.
Everything was good and better than he could have hoped for, better than he ever deserved; only, whatever it was and however good it was, it wasn't what you once had been, and had lost, and could never have again, and once in a while, once in a long time, you remembered, and knew how far you were away, and it hit you hard enough, that little while it lasted, to break your heart.”