In solitude every fear, every longing, becomes exaggerated.
We have glorified wealth and freedom so much that it is impossible for most of us to truly believe that a man can truly be happy in a shack or within the confines of a prison cell.
The hype cheapens the hyped, as right things are then made wrong by exaggeration.
If you use the term 'over-exaggerate,' you know the definition neither of 'exaggerate' nor of 'over.
You can believe in whatsoever you like, but the truth remains the truth, no matter how sweet the lie may taste.
Maybe that's what writers do-Maybe they exaggerate pain just so that you feel okay about what you're feeling.
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 other...
As a comedian, the more you commit the sin of stupidity, three essential things happen to your life:~people applaud you incessantly.~love you more than their parents.~give you a daily bread.
Exaggeration is the kissing cousin of both truth and lie.
The power of a thing is not based on the power it actually possesses. Rather, it is much more about the power that we permit it to possess.
Sometimes when persons say it sounds actually less true.