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Quotes About Intricacy

India, Nicholson would say, was 'like a rat-trap, easier to get into than out of
~ Rajmohan Gandhi
I am not one to seek simple causes.
~ Bill Dedman
I suppose I do have an interest in stories that show complexity.
~ Sarah Gavron
There was so much about my dad that wasn't on the surface.
~ John Carter Cash
Spiderwebs are images of the nonlinear, of the many directions in which something might go, the many sources for it[.]
~ Rebecca Solnit
It would have compromised his basic approach to life which was to have it as confusing, labyrinth-laden and fucked up as possible.
~ Richard Brautigan
Tales within tales. Dreams within dreams. Pattern on pattern and path beyond path. For such short-lived folks, the human kind seem determined to make things as complicated as possible for themselves.
~ Juliet Marillier
Simplicity! He is as simple as a spider's web.
~ Karen Essex
That is complicated question with an equally complicated answer.
~ Karin Slaughter
Boxes within boxes, dolls within dolls, worlds within worlds. Everything was connected. Everything in the whole world.
~ Kate Atkinson
A man's dreams are a maze even he cannot know.
~ Robert Jordan
My music is very, very precise. It's very rigorous. The forms are much more intricate than you would imagine.
~ Meredith Monk
But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
~ Carl Sagan
Nature's message was always there and for us to see. It was written on the wings of butterflies.
~ Kjell Bloch Sandved
Nature is subtle and complex.
~ Marlene Van Niekerk, Agaat
The story of the tree is written on every leaf.
~ Marty Rubin
De twijfel zit in zijn werk als een breipatroon in een damesblad.
~ Willem Frederik Hermans
For all we have learned, the fact remains that we do not understand in any meaningful way why people do what they do, and likely never will.
~ William Landay
Everybody must seem crazy if you see deep enough into their minds.
~ William March
... the wing of a fly is proof enough of the existence of God for me.
~ Pat Conroy
History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.
~ T. S. Eliot
American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the quaggier the mire gets.
~ Sarah Vowell
Heaven's net is wide, but its mesh is fine
~ Lao Tzu
each side of the saddle, all in wickerwork but
~ Jane Gardam