The abject sullenous of poverty ...

Unmasking the worst of society´s ills ... the apathy of human beings

"George’s red body, already a little squat with the burden of thirty years, knotted like oakwood, in its clean white cotton summer union suit that it sleeps in; and his wife’s beside him, Annie Mae’s, slender, and sharpened through with bone that ten years past must have had such beauty, and is now veined at the breast, and the skin of the breast translucent, delicately shriveled, and blue . . . and the tough little body of Junior, hardskinned and gritty, the feet crusted with sores; and the milky and strengthless littler body of Burt whose veins are so bright in his temples".


... James Agee (1909-55), American author. excerpt from his epic prose "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men"  describing the sharecropper family he was living with as part of a study of poverty in the southern states during the Great Depression.

... one of the very few women in movies who really had a face

Teresa Wright

"She has also always used this translucent face with delicate and exciting talent as an actress, and with something of a novelist’s perceptiveness behind the talent… This new performance of hers, entirely lacking in big scenes, tricks, or obstreperousness — one can hardly think of it as acting — seems to me one of the wisest and most beautiful pieces of work I have seen in years.”


  ... James Agee (1909-55), american author and film critic, reviewing The Best Years of Our Lives in The Nation, Dec. 1946

What time has wrought

... for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls



"a wonderful purity at once childlike and profoundly stubborn"

"I cannot conceive of a god who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious in ourselves. An individual who should survive his physical death is also beyond my comprehension, nor do I wish it otherwise; such notions are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls". 

    ... Albert Einstein (1879-1955), theoretical physicist

... the ideal French man of letters

Proust's literary idol "Bergotte"

"I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom"

  ... Anatole France (1844-1924), French poet, journalist, and novelist. 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature.