| Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988. |
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| 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 |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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