Walt Disney
Animator, Film Producer
"All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable."
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Exaggeration Is
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Diana Vreeland
Fashion Editor
"Exaggeration is my only reality."
Willa Cather
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"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."
Victor Hugo
Novelist, Poet
"It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required."
Joseph Conrad
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"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."
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"We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are."
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"Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste."
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"There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much."
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"The report of my death was an exaggeration."
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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."
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"Exaggeration is a branch of lying."
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"It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species."
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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."
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"Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function."
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"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."
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"There is no one who does not exaggerate!"
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"There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side."
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"To a small man every greater is an exaggeration."
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"It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead."
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"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."
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"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."
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