An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting i
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In short, camp mocks bad taste; kitsch exploits it. Camp arouses our sense of the ridiculous and we respond with amused tolerance.
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It is scarcely exaggeration to say that if one is not a little mad about Balzac at twenty, one will never live; and if at forty on
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Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming
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What Marxism was to the society of Economic Man, Calvinism was to that of Intellectual Man: the final, messianic exaggeration of i
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Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his pro
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We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.
'Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.
If it is no exaggeration to say that Deerfield is not so much a town as the ghost of a town, its dimness almost transparent, its q
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The Temptress has now been shown here--terrible. The story, Garbo, everything is extremely bad. It is no exaggeration to say that
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