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Exaggeration is my only reality.
Exaggeration is a branch of lying.
There is no one who does not exaggerate!
The report of my death was an exaggeration.
Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.
Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.
It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.
False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.
It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.
Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can't tell the truth without lying.
Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.
I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too.
It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world.
It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.
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.
But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.
The average comedian is kind of an observer looking at everyday things that everyone could relate to and then trying to find the exaggeration in those things.
I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.
There is an abundance of misinformation, exaggeration, and blatant lies being spread by interest groups regarding the prospects for embryonic stem cell research.
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.
It is an exaggeration to call the Hamas and Islamic Jihad announcement a military alliance. It is rather a message that our people are united in the face of Israeli aggression.
Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a coarse man, vulgar.
An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
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.
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.
It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more novelty than there is, more greatness than there is, and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe. But a world we can shape to our will is a shapeless world.
The rest, with very little exaggeration, was books. Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books. Tall cases lined three walls of the room, filled to and beyond capacity. The overflow had been piled in stacks on the floor. There was little space left for walking, and none whatever for pacing.
Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality. Given the planet, it is still necessary to add the impulse; so, to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance, a slight generosity, a drop too much.