Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Many people in a rather reckless context claim to 'just tell it like it is'. In actuality, nobody really stresses what one says so much as the motive behind what one says; hence, he is merely blowing hot air and detracting from 'what is'.

Criss Jami

Tags: truth emphasis dishonesty honest motives air reckless actuality



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Sometimes when persons say definitely it sounds actually less true.

Emma Donoghue

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My mind, brightened by the lights and the cheerful tumult, suddenly grasped the fact that all achievement was a placing of emphasis-- a moulding of the confusion of life into form.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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