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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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"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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"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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"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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"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?"
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"There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another."
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"The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations."
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"Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it."
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"I don't need the aid of a clever man to teach me how to live. I can find it out for myself."
Philosophy
"Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors."
Nothing
"It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe."
American
"Night came on, the lamps were lighted, the tables near him found occupants, and Paris began to wear that peculiar evening look of hers which seems to say, in the flare of windows and theatre-doors, and the muffled rumble of swift-rolling carriages, that this is no world for you unless you have your pockets lined and your scruples drugged."
Wealth
"It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature."
History
"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind."
Life
"There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition."
Emotional
"It's time to start living the life you've imagined."
Motivation
"The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life."
Life
"He was an awkward mixture of strong moral impulse and restless aesthetic curiosity, and yet he would have made a most ineffective reformer and a very indifferent artist. It seemed to him that the glow of happiness must be found either in action, of some immensely solid kind, on behalf of an idea, or in producing a masterpiece in one of the arts."
Creativity
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