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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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"As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive."
"There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another."
"The world comes to us in an endless stream of puzzle pieces that we would like to think all fit together somehow, but that in fact never do."
"As the complexity in any system increases, the ability to form a correct understanding decreases exponentially."
"I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy."
"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."
"In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity."
"I don't really have preferred roles except those with some complexity."
"Expansion means complexity and complexity decay."
"Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness."
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"One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left."
"If I dont do something on the grand scale, it is that my genius is altogether imitative, and that I have nor recently encountered any very striking models of grandeur."
"It's very silly, she said, "but I go on with it in spite of myself. I'm afraid I'm too easily pleased; no novel is so silly I can't read it."
"We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generositie."
"You will think you take generous views of her; but you will never begin to know through what a strange sea of feeling she passed before she accepted you. As she stood there in front of you the other day, she plunged into it. She said 'Why not?' to something which, a few hours earlier, had been inconceivable. She turned about on a thousand gathered prejudices and traditions as on a pivot, and looked where she had never looked hitherto."
"I remember the whole beginning as a succession of flights and drops, a little seesaw of the right throbs and wrong."
"Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue."
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