73 Quotes About Exaggeration
- Author Wallace Stegner
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That night she wrote a hasty sketch and showed it to Oliver. "It's all right," he said. "But I'd take out that stuff about Olympian mountains and the Stygian caverns of the mine. That's about used up, I should think.
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- Author Tim Tharp
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That's how it is with legends. The greater they sound, the more must've got left out.
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- Author Emma Donoghue
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Sometimes when persons say definitely it sounds actually less true.
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- Author China Miéville
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A few mad exaggerations, alright, within a couple of days: swear to fucking god, they were like throwing grenades and pulling out all kinds of crazy knackery, it was out of control. Whatever. As if the story, if big enough, reflected glory on the teller.
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- Author Tony Hawks
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He came across from the pond, the young man and his fridge travelling over land and sea searching for a meaning and purpose in their lives. We speak of Tony Hawks, the Fridge Man. Tony Hawks who came to live amongst us for all but a short while, a Messiah of sorts. We felt ourselves not worthy to touch the hem of his fridge, but then we realised that he was but an ordinary man, his fridge but a little fridge, the son of a bigger fridge--the Big Fridge--the huge, gigantic Fridge in the Sky.
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- Author Craig D. Lounsbrough
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More often than not, the thing we fear is less than half the size of the fear it creates.
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- Author Jennifer L. Armentrout
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My toes curled against the soft leather sofa pf my flip-flops and my throat felt scratchy as i forced the words out. "I'm...I'm new." There! I did it. I spoke. Take that, everyone! Words were totally my bitch.
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- Author Khang Kijarro Nguyen
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Exaggeration is the melodramatic child of truth.
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- Author Mwanandeke Kindembo
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With too much respect you will end up as a weakling. Keep everything balanced. Don't exaggerate anything, nor please others for your own ruin.
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