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Exaggerate Quotes

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Albert Camus
“You always get exaggerated notions about things you don't know anything about.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger
tags: exaggerate
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Jean-Paul Sartre
“That's what I must avoid: I mustn't put strangeness where there's nothing. I think that is the danger of keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything, you are on the look-out, and you continually stretch the truth.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre
tags: diary, exaggerate, truth
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Darkness exaggerates the size of a spark.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: better, darkness, deceive, deception, exaggerate, exaggeration, illusion, light, size, spark
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Friedrich Nietzsche
“One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: exaggerate, idea, know, stranger
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Sabrina Jeffries
“Why didn't you tell us you were the Alexander Black who can stand atop a cantering horse and shoot a hole through a plum at a hundred paces?"

With a snort, Alec jerked his gaze away. "More like a cantaloupe. The thing shrinks with every retelling. Soon they'll have me shooting at a mustard seed.”
― Sabrina Jeffries, In the Prince's Bed
tags: exaggerate, exaggeration, retell, retelling, tell
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“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.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, believe, confine, confines, consumerism, content, exaggerate, exaggeration, free, freedom, funny, glorify, glory, happiness, happy, hilarious, humor, humorous, humour, idol, idolatry, idols, inflate, inflated, jail, jailed, jailer, jailers, jails, joke, jokes, joy, joyous, liberate, liberation, material, materialism, money, prison, prison-cell, prison-cells, prisoner, prisoners, prisons, rich, riches, satire, shack, shacks, slave, slavery, slaves, spiritual, spirituality, wealth, wealthy, worship
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Sanhita Baruah
“Maybe that's what writers do-
Maybe they exaggerate pain just so that you feel okay about what you're feeling.”
― Sanhita Baruah
tags: alone, broken, drama, emotions, exaggerate, exaggeration, fall, fallen, feel, feelings, grief, grieve, injured-heart, life, lonely, lost, love, pain, painful, poems, poetry, sad, sadness, sorrow-quotes, sorry, stories, story, write, writers
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Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Most of our fears are borrowed. Since that’s the case, we should get busy returning them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough
tags: balance, borrow, borrowed, busy, exaggerate, exaggerated, fear, fearing, fears, fiction, frightened, inflated, reality, refuse, reject, rejecting, returning, truth
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Craig D. Lounsbrough
“The anticipation of loss is much more frightening than the actual loss as anticipation leaves room for the imagination to create that which, in all likelihood, will never transpire.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough
tags: anticipation, anxiety, apprehension, depression, exaggerate, fear, imagination, inflate, panic, paranoia, paranoid, transpire
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Mehmet Murat ildan
“The best advice I’ve ever heard about anything is this: Don’t exaggerate! When you work hard, when you sleep long, when you love much, when you are very sad, always remember this advice: Don’t exaggerate!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan
tags: exaggerate
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
“I exaggerate everything, that is where I go wrong”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
tags: exaggerate
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
“I was always conscious of that weak point of mine, and sometimes very much afraid of it. "I exaggerate everything, that is where I go wrong.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
tags: exaggerate
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Craig D. Lounsbrough
“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.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough
tags: exaggerate, exaggeration, fear, fearing, give, grant, permission, permit, possess, power, powerful, project, projection
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Mehmet Murat ildan
“The more you exaggerate, the more you will look funny!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan
tags: exaggerate, exaggerated, exaggeration, exaggerations, funny, ildan-wisdom, ildan-wise-sayings, ildan-words, look-funny, mehmet-murat-ildan-quotations, mehmet-murat-ildan-quotes, turkish-authors, turkish-literature, turkish-playwrights, turkish-quotations, turkish-quotes, turkish-wisdom-words, turkish-writers
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Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Our fear frequently takes the reality of a situation and mythologizes it. And in the end, the ‘myth’ becomes the monster while the ‘fact’ remains the short guy behind the curtain.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough
tags: challenges, dramatize, exaggerate, fear, frightened, myth, obstacles, reality
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Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Fear is typically one-part fact and about ten-parts fiction. And that kind of formula grows things real big, real fast.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough
tags: balance, exaggerate, fact, fear, fearful, fiction, frightening, imbalance, intimidated
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Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Fear is often bred of an imagination that couldn’t let something be what it actually was.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough
tags: bred, compound, dream, exaggerate, expand, fear, fearing, frightened, imagination, imagine, magnified, magnify, overblown, paralyzed
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Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Fear is my mind painstakingly creating the worse-case scenario and then putting it on steroids.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough
tags: apprehensive, create, enlarge, exaggerate, exaggerated, excessive, fabricate, fear, fearful, fret, frightened, inflate, inflated, magnify, mind, scared, steroids, worse, worse-case
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Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Sadly, it seems that I have the proclivity to create plenty of devils, but most of the time I don’t even go looking for angels.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough
tags: angels, catastrophic, choices, choosing, devils, exaggerate, exaggerated, exaggerating, fear, fearful, fearing, frightened, god, inflate, over-exaggerate, paranoia, paranoid, satan, worse-case
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Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Strength other than that received from God is just hype manufactured by men.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough
tags: christian, christianity, create, deception, empowered, empowerment, exaggerate, exaggerated, god, guidance, hope, hype, inflated, jesus, jesus-christ, lies, manufacture, manufactured, reassurance, strength, strong
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Craig D. Lounsbrough
“If I don the cape of superiority and swoop in to save those which I hold as inferior, I would be wise to realize that the cape is probably something akin to a cheap tablecloth and my superiority as rickety as the folding table that I stole it from.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough
tags: ego, egocentric, exaggerate, inferior, narcissistic, pompous, selfish, superiority
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Craig D. Lounsbrough
“If you’ve somehow been able to find the time to continually talk about the battles that you’re fighting in your life, it may be that the battles are more skirmishes laced with a bit of fiction.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough
tags: battles, create, difficulties, exaggerate, fiction, fighting, inflate, life, skirmishes
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