Diana Vreeland
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"Exaggeration is my only reality."
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Exaggeration
42 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Andre Gide
Novelist
"A work of art is an exaggeration."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"There is no one who does not exaggerate!"
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"There is no greater sin than to be trop prononce."
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"The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration."
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"Remembering is a necessary rebuke to those who say the Holocaust never happened or has been exaggerated."
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"Transmit the established facts; do not transmit words of exaggeration. If you do that, you will probably come out all right."
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"Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can."
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"The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea."
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"You know what's the greatest part of anything ever in the history of everything? Exaggeration. No, wait; it's correcting yourself. No, better yet, it's making lists."
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"I was, without exaggeration, a delinquent teenager."
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"Everybody exaggerates a little bit."
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"To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other."
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"My act is an exaggeration of a part of me. I'm much more expressive off stage."
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"All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing."
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"He who cannot exaggerate is not qualified to utter truth."
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"I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it."
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