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• Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose -- as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles.

  Joseph Conrad

  Laughter, Lying, Exaggeration Is

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Napoleonic Novels: The Rover & Suspense: From the Renowned Author of The Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.400, e-artnow

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• Never believe extraordinary characters which you hear of people. Depend upon it, they are exaggerated. You do not see one man shoot a great deal higher than another.

  Samuel Johnson

  Believe, Character, Men

  Samuel Johnson (1997). “The Sayings of Doctor Johnson”, p.13, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• I know exaggerators of both kinds: people whose lies are only picturesque adjectives, and people whose picturesque adjectives are only lies.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Lying, People, Adjectives

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• But know this: as far as a music culture goes, EDM is the one who will accept the kids on the outliers, the ones who get bullied, the ones who feel like they may not quite fit in. This community is exceptional in its ability to bond all types together, and I am not exaggerating when I say it saves lives. Our audience is intelligent and kind, discriminating only in regards to which sound they like best. Our audience is unprecedented in their drive to proactively support each other.

  Kaskade

  Life, Music, Kids

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• Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.

  Tryon Edwards

  Real, Needs, Speak

  Tryon Edwards (1853). “The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors”, p.356

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• There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.

  George Eliot

  Memories, Disappointment, Exaggeration Is

  George Eliot (1996). “Daniel Deronda”, p.350, Wordsworth Editions

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• Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.

  Eric Hoffer

  Thinking, Exaggeration Is, Literature

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Manners, Exaggerating

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.47, Harvard University Press

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• The author isn't altogether certain that there is any such thing as exaggeration. Our brains permit us to use such a wee fraction of their resources that, in a sense, everything we experience is a reduction. We employ drugs, yoga techniques and poetics - and a thousand more clumsy methods - in an effort just to bring things back up to normal.

  Tom Robbins

  Yoga, Effort, Drug

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• By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Thinking, Exaggeration Is, Force

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• It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

  Mark Twain

  Exaggeration Is, Merit, Humans

  Mark Twain (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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• It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

  Victor Hugo

  Light, Exaggeration Is, Flames

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• There is no one who does not exaggerate!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Exaggeration Is, Doe, Exaggerating

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.267, Harvard University Press

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• Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Anger

  Sand and Foam (1926) p. 59

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• It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

  George H. W. Bush

  Funny, Stupid, Patriotic

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• Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.

  Milan Kundera

  Humility, Exaggeration Is, Together

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• Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Love, Funny, Break Up

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• There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Exaggeration Is, Personality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.267, Harvard University Press

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• It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Race, Literature, Next

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.105, tredition

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• In fact, without any exaggeration, the current mechanism of money creation through credit is certainly the "cancer" that's irretrievably eroding market economies of private property.

  Maurice Allais

  Cancer, Credit, Facts

  "La Crise mondiale d'aujourd'hui. Pour de profondes réformes des institutions financières et monétaires" by Maurice Allais, Clément Juglar, Paris, (p. 74), 1999.

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• To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.

  John Irving

  Family, Nice, Food

  John Irving (1986). “The Hotel New Hampshire”

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• How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never cross the river but in a storm, or take a journey into the country without more adventures than befel the knights-errant of ancient times in pathless forests or enchanted castles! How many must he know, to whom portents and prodigies are of daily occurrence; and for whom nature is hourly working wonders invisible to every other eye, only to supply them with subjects of conversation?

  Samuel Johnson

  Country, Adventure, Eye

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.”, p.23

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• In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

  Theodor Adorno

  Analysis, Psycho

  1966 Negative Dialectics.

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• Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Pain, Writing, Epic

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.352, Simon and Schuster

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• He who cannot exaggerate is not qualified to utter truth.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Qualified

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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