Tryon Edwards Quotes

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

I'm prone to hyperbole.

Italians have no sense of the dramatic.

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

I overdramatize.

Exaggeration is my only reality.

Reality bears no relationship to the super-heated rhetoric.

Words, as is well known, are the greatest foes of reality.

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament,, and embrace it with passion.

There are some things people avoid saying in interviews because they sound pompous or sentimental or too mystical.

A non-event ... is better to write about than an event, because with a non-event you can make up the meaning yourself, it means whatever you say it means.

I'm very interested in the question of how we perceive something, how consciousness goes from one thing, like looking at you in your black hat to what it might mean to my imagination and how I would draw that or write that, how I would subjectify you? It's something that is endlessly interesting to me.

Exaggeration! was ever any virtue attributed to a man without exaggeration? was ever any vice, without infinite exaggeration? Do we not exaggerate ourselves to ourselves, or do we recognize ourselves for the actual men we are? Are we not all great men? Yet what are we actually, to speak of? We live by exaggeration.

I exaggerated even before I began to exaggerate, because it's true — nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.

The thing about That Guy Is a Gigolo,' Radar says, 'I mean, the thing about it as a game, is that in the end it reveals a lot more about the person doing the imagining than it does about the person being imagined.

The Doctor: I've seen bigger. Clara: Really? The Doctor: Are you joking? It's massive!

The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud; but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more.

Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.

You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.

To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.

But sometimes what we call 'memory' and what we call 'imagination' are not so easily distinguished.

Why are all reflections lovelier than what we call reality? -- not so grand or so strong, it may be, but always lovelier? Fair as is the gliding sloop on the shining sea, the wavering, trembling, unresting sail below is fairer still...All mirrors are magic mirrors. The commonest room is a room in a poem when I turn to the glass...There must be a truth involved in it, though we may but in part lay hold of the meaning.

Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.

You know, two people can say exactly the same words, saying the same story, and it would mean something entirely different.