James Agee // “Just spunk won't be enough; you've got to have gumption. You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning or any regard for justice. You've got to keep your mind off of pitying your own rotten luck... You've got to remember that things as bad as this and a hell of a lot worse have happened to millions of people before and that they've come through it and you can too... 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."