“It is always the novice who exaggerates.”
“Rebelliousness is not a good quality in a novice.”
“Being a novice is not an alibi to become a zilch.”
“You always get exaggerated notions about things you don't know anything about.”
“However...who said that thing about "the littleness of life that art exaggerates"?”
“We aren't eccentric, we're not bizarre. To each other, we're as normal and nice as the smell of bread, we were just a family. In a family, even exaggerations make perfect sense; they are always logical exaggerations, nothing more.”