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Quotes About Complication

I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them.
~ Anne Stevenson
One of the joys of being in love is that it clarifies your priorities. Complication arises from not knowing what you want.
~ Philip Sington
I love you. And I want you, too. But. However. Unfortunately...
~ Megan McCafferty
Love is a gift. Passion is a curse
~ Alyson Noel, Dark Flame
The last thing she'd wanted was anything as complicated as a relationship, for it felt as though there we're though complication in her life already.
~ Nicholas. Sparks, The Choice
People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Que se yo. La gente se complica la vida, como si no fuese suficientemente complicada
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I found a tin of English chocolate biscuits and decided to have some. Half an hour later, my veins pumping with sugar and caffeine, my brain started to work and I had the brilliant idea of beginning the day by complicating my existence even further, if that was possible.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
That was all he wanted for himself – to give to her. Biff's mouth hardened. He had done nothing wrong but in him he felt a strange guilt. Why? The dark guilt in all men, unreckoned and without a name.
~ Carson McCullers
theory is an extremely complicated thing, as varied and mixed-up and contradictory as life itself.
~ Chang-Rae Lee
But simple people don't understand complicated ones and thrust the latter back on themselves, more ruthlessly than any others, I thought. The biggest mistake is to think that one can be rescued by so-called simple people. A person goes to them in an extremely needy condition and begs desperately to be rescued and they thrust this person even more deeply into his own despair. And how are they supposed to save the extravagant one in his extravagance, I thought. Wertheimer
~ Thomas Bernhard
No, this is not a disentanglement from, but a progressive knotting into --
~ Thomas Pynchon
The living have enough to worry about these days without the dead coming back to complicate things.
~ Kealan Patrick Burke
Here's a simple complication: What do I mean when I say the word nature? Even as I build it, my answer shifts. I picture the simultaneously increasing and decreasing heft at the tops of the sand dunes Edward Abbey describes in Desert Solitaire. The instability that is the only stable truth beyond the angle of repose.
~ Camille T. Dungy
What can I tell you? Love's a bitch.
~ Gayle Forman
Your sales pitch should present the goal and build to the interesting complication. They'll buy that.
~ Gene Perret
Nadira stared at him for another long moment. "Why can't anything be simple with you, Matias?" "Because life is complicated." She'd exhaled and waved him off. "Go. Practice. Work on achieving harmony. I need to pray.
~ Ilona Andrews
intrissacies
~ Isaac Asimov
Here is the devil-and-all to pay.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
AH the fat's in the fire.
~ John Marston
It is easy to be accurate if you have the freedom to be complicated, and it is very easy to be simple if you have the freedom to shade the truth. What's hard is to be simple and very accurate, and that takes work to figure out what are the simple truths that are going to sustain your case.
~ David Boies
He gave Dancer one last pat. 'You're luckier than you know, pal. Living without a set of balls makes life a lot less complicated.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
All that interior violence and complication to defend themselves from the very tenderness.
~ Susana Fortes
What do I mean when I say I love Gale? I don't know. I did kiss him last night, in a moment when my emotions were running so high. But I'm sure he doesn't remember it. Does he? I hope not. If he does, everything will just get more complicated and I really can't think about kissing when I've got a rebellion to incite.
~ Suzanne Collins