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• The degree of complications and unhappiness in a person's life corresponds to the degree to which he dwells on the way he thinks the world ought to be rather than the way it really is. and being grateful it isn't worse, while trying to make it better.

  Robert Ringer

  Gratitude, Grateful, Thinking

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• we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all.

  Joan Didion

  Inspirational, Loss, Bereavement

  "The Year of Magical Thinking". Book by Joan Didion, www.theguardian.com. 2005.

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• He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen - and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death. Hurray then for funerals!

  Albert Camus

  War, Drama, Commitment

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.37, Vintage

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• The success of any trap lies in its fundamental simplicity. The reverse trap by the nature of its single complication must be swift and simpler still.

  Robert Ludlum

  Lying, Simplicity, Fundamentals

  Robert Ludlum (2013). “The Jason Bourne Series 3-Book Bundle: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum”, p.465, Bantam

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• I live on the other side of Charles Darwin and I can no longer see human light as having been created perfect and falling into sin, I see us rather emerging into higher and higher levels of consciousness and higher and higher levels of complication.

  John Shelby Spong

  Fall, Light, Perfect

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• I work more now because at this time of my life I am not disturbed from my aim by outside pressures such as family, passionate relationships, dealing with 'who am I?' - those complications when one is searching for one's self.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Self, Passionate, Pressure

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• I'm into people's emotional lives and relationships and the complications of living. That's my turf.

  Mike Mills

  Emotional, People, Turf

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• Simplicity is a key to avoiding complication. Part of the definition of simplicity is 'not complex or complicated; sincere.'

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Keys, Simplicity

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• There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Surely these should never be confused in the mind of any man who has the slightest inlinkng of what culture is. For most of us it is essential that we should make a living... In the complications of modern life and with our increased accumulation of knowledge, it doubtless helps greatly to compress some years of experience into far fewer years by studying for a particular trade or profession in an institution.

  James Truslow Adams

  Confused, Men, Years

  "To 'Be' or to 'DO'" Forum, Volume LXXXI, No. 6, June 1929.

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• Love with complications. Scenery was the last thing on my mind.

  Haruki Murakami

  Mind, Lasts, Norwegian Wood

  Haruki Murakami (2007). “Vintage Murakami”, p.5, Vintage

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• In biology, nothing is clear, everything is too complicated, everything is a mess, and just when you think you understand something, you peel off a layer and find deeper complications beneath. Nature is anything but simple.

  Richard Preston

  Life, Simple, Thinking

  "The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story". Book by Richard Preston, www.dailymaverick.co.za. 1999.

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• We've had to deal with so many complications. We're still dealing with them. And what can we do? Nothing - well, unless we take your side's point of view and make deals with the devil. But why? Why can't we make deals with God? People do all the time. 'God, if you do this for me, I promise to be good.' Stuff like that. Yeah, but I don't see any contracts like you guys have. No hard evidence that it works. How come we can only get things we want by being bad? Why can't we get them by being good?

  Richelle Mead

  Views, Your Side, People

  Richelle Mead (2015). “Succubus Heat”, p.293, Zebra

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• Confusion and clutter are failures of design, not attributes of information. And so the point is to find design strategies that reveal detail and complexity - rather than to fault the data for an excess of complication. Or, worse, to fault viewers for a lack of understanding.

  Edward Tufte

  Data, Confusion, Design

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• When you are writing fiction your task is to reflect the fullest complications of the world

  Julian Barnes

  Writing, Tasks, Fiction

  Julian Barnes, Vanessa Guignery, Ryan Roberts (2009). “Conversations with Julian Barnes”, p.65, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• There are children who will leave a game to go and be bored in a corner of the garret. How often have I wished for the attic of my boredom when the complications of life made me lose the very germ of freedom!

  Gaston Bachelard

  Happiness, Children, Games

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• Nothing worthwhile is ever without complications.

  Nora Roberts

  Worthwhile

  Nora Roberts (2012). “All the Possibilities: The MacGregors”, p.94, Penguin

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• One of the joys of being in love is that it clarifies your priorities. Complication arises from not knowing what you want.

  Philip Sington

  Being In Love, Love Is, Knowing

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• The phrase what I want struck me. It contains so much entitlement, so many complications, but encompasses only what a person doesn't have.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Phrases, Want, Entitlement

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.60, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Aunt, Simple

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• I had as yet no notion that life every now and then becomes literature—not for long, of course, but long enough to be what we best remember, and often enough so that what we eventually come to mean by life are those moments when life, instead of going sideways, backwards, forward, or nowhere at all, lines out straight, tense and inevitable, with a complication, climax, and, given some luck, a purgation, as if life had been made and not happened.

  Norman Maclean

  Mean, Long, Luck

  Norman Maclean (2009). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.127, University of Chicago Press

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• Every time I am reading actors I can pretty well tell which ones have studied with Meisner. It is because they are honest and simple and don't lay on complications that aren't necessary.

  Arthur Miller

  Reading, Simple, Actors

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• I don’t understand why we must do things in this world, why we must have friends and aspirations, hopes and dreams. Wouldn’t it be better to retreat to a faraway corner of the world, where all its noise and complications would be heard no more? Then we could renounce culture and ambitions; we would lose everything and gain nothing; for what is there to be gained from this world?

  Emile M. Cioran

  Dream, Ambition, Would Be

  "On the Heights of Despair". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1934.

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• It's hard enough to be in a marriage, and then have a kid, then kids, it changes everything. For me, I'd become more concerned with my children. Not that I ignored Britney, but my kids are always most important . . . I mean, we were having complications. I didn't give her an ultimatum, but I was trying to work stuff out with her, and she didn't even talk to me or anything and went behind my back and filed [for divorce]. [I was] completely blindsided.

  Kevin Federline

  Children, Kids, Divorce

  "Kevin Federline: My Side of the Story". Interview with Marisa Laudadio, people.com. December 03, 2008.

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• from the complications of loving you i think there is no end or return. no answer, no coming out of it. which is the only way to love, isn't it? this isn't a playground, this is earth, our heaven, for a while. therefore i have given precedence to all my sudden, sullen, dark moods that hold you in the center of my world. and i say to my body: grow thinner still. and i say to my fingers, type me a pretty song. and i say to my heart: rave on.

  Mary Oliver

  Song, Heart, Dark

  FaceBook post by Mary Oliver from Nov 19, 2016

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• When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.

  Richard Dawkins

  Machines, Too Much, Emphasis

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