Quotes by Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Quotations about Exaggeration

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell >>

Exaggeration is the inseparable companion of greatness. >>

It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it e >>

It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more novelty than there is, more greatness than there is, and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe. But a world we can shape to our will is a shapeless world.

Boorstin, Daniel J.