Holden Exaggeration Quotes & Sayings

The more learned a writer, the more digression beckons him. — Mason Cooley

In my room, the world is beyond my understanding; / But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four hills and a cloud. - WALLACE STEVENS, OF THE SURFACE OF THINGS — Rebecca Solnit

(The error in reasoning is a bit from wishful thinking, because education is considered "good"; I wonder why people don't make the epiphenomenal association between the wealth of a country and something "bad," say, decadence, and infer that decadence, or some other disease of wealth like a high suicide rate, also generates wealth.) — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

A living creature develops a destructive impulse when it wants to destroy a source of danger ... The original motive is not pleasure in destruction ... I destroy in a dangerous situation because I want to live and do not want to have any anxiety. In short, the impulse to destroy serves a primary biological will to live ... — Wilhelm Reich

Everything is more compelling when you talk like a human being, when you talk like yourself. — Ira Glass

Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred. — Tori Amos