Quotes About Complexity

Braque and James Joyce, they are the incomprehensibles whom anybody can understand

Y]ou are a puzzle to me and if I could solve that puzzle I could solve the puzzle of America.

Wherever you come near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense. . .

Wherever you come near the human race there's layers and layers of nonsense.

I will miss you, he said, and his words was both honey and poison, sun and moon in the same sky.

And yet, despite the daily violence, Tehmina had marveled at the intimate way in which this tiny family huddled together around a small stove for their evening meals, had witnessed Parvati laughing as she lovingly combed her daughter's long hair, had registered the panicked look in Krishna's eyes when Parvati had taken ill with typhoid fever. Reality was complicated; Themina knew that. India had taught her that lesson, over and over again.

Given that those sinning, raping plantation owners had both white babies and Black babies, everyone was six degrees from being one or the other. Which was what scared southern white people the most.

Lizette felt that since Belle Fleur was full of Black folks who looked white, numbers suggested that many whites could be Black. It was all a fine line in the South, she'd say. Given that those sinning, raping plantation owners had both white babies and Black babies, everyone was six degrees from being one or the other. Which was what scared southern white people the most.

The phrase what I want struck me. It contains so much entitlement, so many complications, but encompasses only what a person doesn't have.

Yes Serge has killed a lot of people , but let's not overlook all of his other accomplishments.

The number one directive of any decent Master Plan is unlimited sub–Master Plans.

It's assumed that light-skinned women have no problems or issues, but they are judged before you know who they are.

What I love about Hugh Jackman is he just brings all the elements of my vision of Logan. The pain, the nobility, the duality of his existence.

If you can write someone off as a bad person, then it's easier, but when someone is also great and noble and generous and kind and funny and contradictory, it gets harder.

As brilliant as those dark Scandi noir dramas are, not everything has to be shot down a Danish alleyway.

I think, like, fiction has a place to understand those things that are hardest to understand that non-fiction can't ever get at.

I'm a lot of things, but none of them are great.

Humans are very complex; I definitely have a new respect for authors that are able to write books nonstop. It's an incredible talent.

We are not angels. Nor are we the devils you have made us out to be.

I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.

I want to play a wife who cheats on her husband, or just a normal person who isn't an angel, because I am far from an angel.

I'm quite an emotional person... I ain't just this Northern brat all the time.

It's a complicated relationship with the place one grows up in, particularly if it's Northern Ireland.

One can criticize the Israeli government, but it is not fair to judge the people of Israel.