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“The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.”
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“It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.”
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“Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.”
Source : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.43, Courier Corporation
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“The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors, that any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.”
Source : Adam Gopnik (2000). “Paris to the Moon”, Random House Incorporated
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“I want to leave my readers with a sequence of ideas/phrases that makes them question something they'd taken for granted. Or that confuses them to the point that they laugh, but contains one or two phrases/lines that stick in their minds.”
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“I was really intrigued by the idea of using live streams of data that's relevant to real people, and that would allow us to reflect and learn about ourselves.”
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“People think fame and money will bring you happiness. Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated.”
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“I like to make an image that is so simple you can't avoid it, and so complicated you can't figure it out.”
Source : Alex Katz, Vittoria Coen, Lisa Liebmann (1999). “Alex Katz. Catalogo della mostra”, Hopeful Monsters
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“It was my science that drove me to the conclusion that the world is much more complicated than can be explained by science. It is only through the supernatural that I can understand the mystery of existence.”
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“No problem is so complicated that you cannot make it more complicated.”
