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"The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple."
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"Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness."
"The nature of reality is such that every sufficiently complex event is statistically impossible, they are all one time events. This is a dynamic of novelty and so anything stable is forced to fluctuate including meaning. When we measure a thing we may not see the dynamics as a consequence of resolution. This is because the holographic information field has a nested hierarchy of scale."
"I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it."
"People are too complicated to have simple labels."
"Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it."
"The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity."
"There were so many different versions of him. It was countless versions of a song, and they were all original, and they were all true, and they were all right. It should have been impossible. Was I supposed to love them all?"
"In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity."
"Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it."
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"The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal."
"In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward."
"I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me."
"In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it."
"Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story."
"The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home."
"Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories."
"I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window."
"The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple."
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