exaggeration

job interview

hyperbole

change

amplification

compulsion

one-liner

overwork

my wife left me

fishing

penis size

eyewitness

statistics

overreacting

self-care

making a scene

rhetoric

resume

padding your resume

is a blood relation to falsehood, and nearly as blamable.

a blood relation to falsehood, and nearly as blamable.

Exaggeration is a branch of lying. Baltasar Gracian

is Unwise —- it is a rule of manners to avoid it.

is at the core of all speaking and of every concept. By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.

By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration. Jose Ortega y Gasset

is inseparable from the passions, and passions are passions only because they do exaggerate.

All passions exaggerate... and they are passions only because they do exaggerate. Nicolas Chamfort

is so thorough in some people that they can't tell the truth without lying.

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying. Josh Billings

is often necessary.  Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated. Isaiah Berlin

is adding to the truth in a way that ultimately subtracts from it.

If you add to the truth, you subtract from it.

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exaggeration