“What one does when faced with the truth is more difficult than you would think.”— Allan Heinberg, Diana Prince / Wonder Woman, Gal Gadot, imdb.com
“The point in all this is that language is a handy whipping boy to summon and belabor when we have failed in some serious way. In other words, we play politics with language, and in so doing conceal the reality and the complexity of our situation from ourselves and from those foolish enough to put th…”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“Einstein said that any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. But it takes a touch of genius and lots of courage to move something in the opposite direction. I'm realizing that my touch of genius and my courage are coming too little, too late.”— Nichole Beattie, John Teller, Nicholas Guest, imdb.com
“Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“Human beings often display emotion they do not feel. And they often feel emotion they do not display. That’s a description of me all right. I keep myself locked as a box when it matters, and broken open when it doesn’t matter at all.”— Jeanette Winterson, amazon.com
“And I am a faithful believer that the stars laugh at the simple complexity of us humans.”— Sophia Carey, wnq-writers.com
“Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“The best close readers are always attentive to many different forms at different scales operating at once.”— Caroline Levine, amazon.com
“ENFPs are creative thinkers who are skilled at contriving novel solutions to complex problems.”— Heidi Priebe, amazon.com
“She may have looked normal on the outside, but once you'd seen her handwriting you knew she was deliciously complicated inside.”— Jeffrey Eugenides, amazon.com
“Really, why should we be forced to assume that there is an essential difference between 'true' and 'false' in the first place? Isn't it enough to assume that there are degrees of apparency and, so to speak, lighter and darker shadows and hues of appearance—different valeurs to use the language of pa…”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“In the fall of 2004, my freshman students and I analyzed a speech of John Kerry's and found it confused, contradictory, inchoate, and weak. Six weeks later I went out and voted for John Kerry. What I was doing in class was subjecting Kerry's arguments to an academic interrogation. Do they hang toget…”— Stanley Fish, amazon.com
“Like generals in the safety of a situation room using toy tanks on a miniature battlefield to re-create a noisy and violent war, government and corporate leaders strategized in isolation from the cacophony of feedback. They sought to engage with their challenges from far above and to make moves as i…”— Douglas Rushkoff, amazon.com