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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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"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."
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"The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and complexity."
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"In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity."
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"Maybe a mother wasn't what she seemed to be on the surface."
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"It is clear to all that the animal organism is a highly complex system consisting of an almost infinite series of parts connected both with one another and, as a total complex, with the surrounding world, with which it is in a state of equilibrium."
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"You know what is the most complicated feature of human nature? It is the term complication itself. We are never satisfied with keeping things simple. We always tend to exaggerate even the simplest phenomenon of this planet."
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"To think of shadows is a serious thing."
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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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"Just a single cord is enough to be tangled."
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"It's simple, it's not that simple; or life is simple, but the things in it are not. When a man does not understand it, he tends to inflate it. When he does, he tends to deflate it. In the end, neither images are fully accurate."
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"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."
Want
"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."
Time
"Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories."
People
"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."
Work
"The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple."
Complexity
"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."
Time
"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."
Memory
"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."
Home
"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."
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