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Jean Cocteau
: Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.
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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Wallace Stevens :
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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Ernest Hemingway :
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I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.
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I don't understand complicated problems. I only understand simple ones.
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Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
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After all, life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it.
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Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.
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George Sand :
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The truth is too simple: one must always get there by a complicated route.
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Gertrude Stein :
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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Art is science made clear.
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The extreme limit of wisdom--that is what the public calls madness.
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Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
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The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
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