Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.
NUMBER:
6270
AUTHOR:
James Agee
QUOTATION:
He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things: a one-track mind near the track’s end of pure insanity; mulish imperturbability under the wildest of circumstances; how dead a human being can get and still be alive; an awe-inspiring sort of patience and power to endure, proper to granite but uncanny in flesh and blood.
ATTRIBUTION:
On deadpan comedian Buster Keaton, “Comedy’s Greatest Era” reprinted in Life Fall 86
SUBJECTS:
Communications & the Arts: Films: Observers & Critics
