It doesn't matter what you do. In the end, you are going to be judged, and all the times that you're not at your most dignified are the ones that will be recalled in all their vivid, heartbreaking detail. And then of course these things will be distorted and exaggerated and replayed over and over, until eventually they turn into the essence of you: your cartoon.
Dan ChaonTags: judgment essence image caricature degradation exaggeration humiliation
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.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: art dance film architecture exaggeration
Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.
George Bernard ShawTags: love difference exaggeration between everyone gross
Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.
E.M. ForsterTags: reading criticism praise reviewing reading-books exaggeration long-book overpraising
Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
Samuel JohnsonTags: words language importance exaggeration
He was becoming aware that there was no such thing as over-the-top with Lawrence Davenport, as long as you were talking to Lawrence Davenport about Lawrence Davenport.
Jeffrey ArcherTags: funny exaggeration
Legends exaggerate.
Toba BetaTags: legend exaggeration
It is always the novice who exaggerates.
C.S. LewisTags: exaggeration
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.
Wallace StegnerTags: writing metaphors mythology clichés exaggeration
That's how it is with legends. The greater they sound, the more must've got left out.
Tim TharpTags: truth rewriting-history exaggeration legends
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