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I adore falseness. I don't want you to tell me accurately what happened yesterday. I want you to lie about it, to exaggerate, to entertain me.
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As I had been forced to learn at a very young age, there's no better way to mask a lie - or at least a glaring omission - than to wrap it in an emotional outpouring of truth.
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When you meet someone, you meet their face. It's the most potent part of the body to embellish.
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She was big on patination. That was how quality wore in, she said, as opposed to out. Distressing, on the other hand, was the faking of patination, and was actually a way of concealing a lack of quality.
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Creating red herrings
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To deceive ones selfe is very easie.
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Truth doesn't need elaboration or embellishment; it can stand on its own two legs. All the adornment in the world doesn't make the truth any more true.
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It must be confessed that it takes considerable skill to produce the best kind of lies. It is in the hands of first-class photographers only - and perhaps the indifferent ones - that photography can lie.
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An authentic and ingenious account of the ingeniously counterfeit in art and in life.
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Some are born to invent, others to embellish; but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect.
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Mischief Managed.
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Time and time again one has seen how stories get exaggerated in the telling.
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Coquetry is the art of successful deception.
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What a strange mind, to cover the real thing with an imitation of something real.
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At least embarrasement is not an imitation. It is intimacy for beginners.
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Exaggeration is the kissing cousin of both truth and lie.
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Exaggeration is the octopus of the English language
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The wrong word is like a lie jammed inside the story.
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Lying is manipulation. I prefer to call what I did 'improvisation in times of desperation.
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There is a set of harmless liars, frequently to be met with in company, who deal much in the marvellous. Their usual intention is to please and entertain; but as men are most delighted with what they conceive to be the truth, these people mistake the means of pleasing, and incur universal blame.
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To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.
(Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935)
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Hiding behind the mask of a quotation, using someone else's words to bolster our own softly blooming emotions.
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The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.
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Uncommon expressions are a disfigurement rather than an embellishment of discourse.
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Some frauds succeed from the apparent candor, the open confidence, and the full blaze of ingenuousness that is thrown around them. The slightest mystery would excite suspicion and ruin all. Such stratagems may be compared to the stars; they are discoverable by darkness and hidden only by light.
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I'm so good at faking I don't even know when I'm doing it
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If you use the term 'over-exaggerate,' you know the definition neither of 'exaggerate' nor of 'over.
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Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.
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I tend to basically exaggerate in life, and in writing, it's fine to exaggerate. I really enjoy overstating for the purpose of getting a laugh. For another thing, writing is easier than digging ditches. Well, actually, that's an exaggeration. It isn't.
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breathtakingly lewd exhibition of modesty.
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What I really don't like is oversimplification.
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Exaggeration misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive.
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His appearance in reality a hidden masquerade
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The techniques of kitsch, which are based on imitation, are rational and operate according to formulas; the remain rational even when their result has a highly irrational, even crazy, quality.
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Kitsch may be conveniently defined as a specifically aesthetic form of lying.
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A mundane lie hiding an exotic truth is deception; an exotic lie hiding a mundane truth is storytelling. Deception may be necessary to preserve life, but storytelling makes life worth living.
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You fake something until you're good at it.
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A consciously exaggerated compliment is an offense.
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The process in which a writer is compelled to counterfeit his true feelings is exactly the opposite of that which the man of society is compelled to counterfeit his. The artist disguises in order to reveal; the man of society disguises in order to conceal
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In order to play musically you have to learn the art of exaggerating.
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Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world.
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Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.
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What else exhausts like sustained deception?
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Few persons can relate the story of their childhood without idealizing, or distorting, or overdramatizing the facts.
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The meaningless wordplays of modish francophone savants, splendidly exposed in Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont's Intellectual Impostures (1998), seem to have no other function than to impress the gullible.
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Veiling truth in mystery.
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When technique is obtrusive it becomes mere mannerism, a conscious striving for effect. It is only a means to an end - the manner of putting paint to paper. It hardly embraces the expressive side of painting.
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I hate deception, even where the imagination only is concerned.
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Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.
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There are people who indulge themselves in a sort of lying, which they reckon innocent, and which in one sense is so; for it hurtsnobody but themselves. This sort of lying is the spurious offspring of vanity, begotten upon folly.
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An exaggeration is a truth that has lost it's temper.
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Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation.
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Lies can open up the doors to imagination.
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Keeping up the fiction. You have to keep it up, sometimes, no matter how you feel.
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His features were smudged and indistinct, as though a thumb had smeared itself across an ink drawing of a face. His
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I exaggerate everything, that is where I go wrong.
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The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is; and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished.
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We fiction writers are a brazen lot, are we not? For we, in our passion, embrace just enough truth to consecrate our delicately contrived lies.
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Drawing is deception.
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Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.
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If you're not honest with your work - if you're being merely decorative - then the world will know. People intuit honest work. They know when they are being tricked by clever metaphors . . . by dishonesty in the artist.
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If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.
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Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they are mistaken for realities, but because they bring realities to mind.
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Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings.
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For every work of fiction, the author inserts a bit of themself to make the story seem more real. For every work of nonfiction, the edges of reality must be blurred creatively to keep the reader's interest.
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....faking his real life so he can live his fake one.
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Invention despoils observations, insinuation invalidates memory. A stewpot of bad habits, all of it - so that imaginative writers wind up, by and large, a shifty crew, sunk in distortion, misrepresentation, illusion, imposture, fakery.
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They were enjoying it. Whether they were faking or not, they were enjoying it.
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The work resembles a breech delivery-one which is expressed in rhythmic lurches, stabs of phrase and vocal ornamentation designed to express agitation rather than decorative grace.
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Great is the power of steady misrepresentation
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Forging differs from hoaxing, inasmuch as in the later the deceit is intended to last for a time, and then be discovered, to the ridicule of those who have credited it; whereas the forger is one who, wishing to acquire a reputation for science, records observations which he has never made.
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I come from a long line of serial embellishers. Sometimes a good story's got a ghost in it; sometimes a panther chases my Uncle Bill and Fred Price home from a coon hunt.
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A smiling, bantering, humouring, watchful and incessant lie. A lie by day, a lie by night, a lie in every touch and every look; a lie in every caress and every quarrel; a lie in every word and in every silence.
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The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.
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The artist makes his living by pretending, by putting it in a meaningful hole though no such holes exist.
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Her face was as red as her hair. "What are you doing," she cried.
Devon put a question mark next to the sentence. "Editing your paper." What did it look like he was doing?
"You're just cutting out stuff!"
"What do you think editing is?
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Hoax needed to complete the premises of truth.
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My young friend supposes his ingenuousness is merely a ruse.
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There is a hidden power in details
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Imitation is flattery
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The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly and at great length. If not for our excessive vanity and our over-active imaginations, novelists might be unusually difficult to deceive.
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striving for fabulousness.
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Melanie finds this interesting in spite of herself - that you can use words to hide things, or not to touch them, or to pretend that they're something different than they are.
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Dana raised her hand. "I learned about exaggeration," she said. "It was all my teacher ever talked about. We had like ten thousand tests on it, and the teacher would kill you if you didn't spell it right." "That's very good, Dana!" said Mrs. Jewls. "You learned your lesson well.
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The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.
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filmmaking is artful lying,
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The fake missed sincerity.
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We're trying to fill something internal with something external. We're trying to fill something real with something illusionary.
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I try not to fake anything.
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I haven't exaggerated anything, I've stuck to the facts.
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They walked on rather aimlessly. He hoped she wouldn't notice he was touched, because he wouldn't have known how to explain why. Here lay the great discrepancy between aesthetic truth and sleazy reality.
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Like a stage magician, the con artist misdirects suspicion. While everyone's watching for him to pull a rabbit out of a hat, he's actually sawing a girl in half. You think he's doing one trick when he's actually doing another.
You think that I'm dying, but I'm laughing at you.
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I exaggerate
There is a lie in my truth
Look! My soul is blue
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Playing with appearances and mastering the arts of deception are among the aesthetic pleasures of life. They are also key components in the acquisition of power.
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One pretends to do something, or copy someone or some teacher, until it can be done confidently and easily in what becomes one's own style
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... I go through a story for lies. I might discover the lie of trying to show off. Sometimes they're lies of character. Sometimes they are lies of writing the most beautiful sentence in the world that has nothing to do with the story.
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[People] want me to finish things. But I see them in such a way and paint them accordingly ... Nothing is simpler than to complete pictures in a superficial sense. Never does one lie so cleverly as then.
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Novelist: Telling lies for fun and profit.
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Canoodling, I see.