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James Agee Quotes about Lying

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Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

James Agee
Lying, Errors, Littles

And somewhat as in blind night, on a mild sea, a sailor may be made aware of an iceberg, fanged and mortal, bearing invisibly near, by the unwarned charm of its breath, nothingness now revealed itself: that permanent night upon which the stars in their expiring generations are less than the glinting of gnats, and nebulae, more trivial than winter breath; that darkness in which eternity lies bent and pale, a dead snake in a jar, and infinity is the sparkling of a wren blown out to sea; that inconceivable chasm of invulnerable silence in which cataclysms of galaxies rave mute as amber.

James Agee
Stars, Lying, Winter
James Agee (2008). “A Death in the Family”, p.66, Penguin

It is clear enough by now to most people that the camera never lies is a foolish saying. Yet it is doubtful whether most people realize how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is.

James Agee
Liars, Lying, People
Helen Levitt, James Agee (1989). “A way of seeing”

It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.

James Agee
Photography, Travel, Lying
Helen Levitt, James Agee (1989). “A way of seeing”

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