Sunday, January 24, 2010

Exaggeration

Subject:  Exaggeration
Quote:  He told his story—perhaps at somewhat unnecessary length.  It was, like many true stories, greatly inferior to fiction.
Character:  Omniscient narrator
Chapter/Story:  “The Soul of the Croupier”
Book Title/Copyright:  The Mysterious Mr. Quin, 1930


Subject:  Exaggeration
Quote:  “Of course I know he’s the sort of person who exaggerates his own callousness and all that.  But that could be a cover, too.  I mean everyone says that you’re more callous than you really are.  But you mightn’t be.  You might be even more callous than you seem.”
Character:  Lucy Eyelesbarrow
Chapter/Story:  25
Book Title/Copyright:  What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw! [4:50 From Paddington], 1957