exaggeration

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
f4c8d89	Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.	reading long-book overpraising reviewing praise reading-books exaggeration	E.M. Forster
771f7fb	Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people really talk, make paltry human enterprises seem important. Singers and musicians show us human beings making sounds far more lovely than human beings really make. Architects give us temples in which something marvelous is obviously going on. Actually, practically nothing is going on.	dance art exaggeration film	Kurt Vonnegut
3828992	Sometimes when persons say it sounds actually less true.	truth definitely emphasis exaggeration uncertainty	Emma Donoghue
28abe5c	Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.	religion primness doctrine exaggeration	Charles Dickens
4549d09	"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."	humor exaggeration excitement	Jennifer L. Armentrout
91d638b	There is a kind of gaping admiration that would fain roll Shakespeare and Bacon into one, to have a bigger thing to gape at; and a class of men who cannot edit one author without disparaging all others.	shakespeare conflation francis-bacon editing exaggeration	Robert Louis Stevenson
4d1c33f	"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."	writing exaggeration metaphors mythology	Wallace Stegner

f4c8d89

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

reading long-book overpraising reviewing praise reading-books exaggeration

E.M. Forster

771f7fb

Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people really talk, make paltry human enterprises seem important. Singers and musicians show us human beings making sounds far more lovely than human beings really make. Architects give us temples in which something marvelous is obviously going on. Actually, practically nothing is going on.

dance art exaggeration film

Kurt Vonnegut

3828992

Sometimes when persons say it sounds actually less true.

truth definitely emphasis exaggeration uncertainty

Emma Donoghue

28abe5c

Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

religion primness doctrine exaggeration

Charles Dickens

4549d09

"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."

humor exaggeration excitement

Jennifer L. Armentrout

91d638b

There is a kind of gaping admiration that would fain roll Shakespeare and Bacon into one, to have a bigger thing to gape at; and a class of men who cannot edit one author without disparaging all others.

shakespeare conflation francis-bacon editing exaggeration

Robert Louis Stevenson

4d1c33f

"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."

writing exaggeration metaphors mythology

Wallace Stegner