#simple

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph. ↗

— Thomas Mann

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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes. ↗

— Greil Marcus

#america #betrayal #ever #failure #hopes

'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write. ↗

— Yann Martel

#life #novel #simple #very #write

To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity. ↗

— Jose Marti

#attend #busy #difficult #dignity #futile

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects. ↗

— Karl Marx

#bourgeoisie #great #hills #insipid #intellects

If you look at Myspace, Facebook was a better product. It's as simple as that. ↗

— Andrew Mason

#facebook #look #myspace #product #simple

You don't have to know anything about music to understand what I write. Mine are simple melodies. ↗

— Harry Warren

#anything #i #i write #know #melodies

When I listen to my favorite songwriters, they have such simple melodies and chords. I occasionally manage to stop at the right time, but all too often I keep on going until I have way too many notes and words. But that's just what I do. ↗

— Dave Matthews

#favorite #going #i #i do #just

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#beauty #ecstasy #hunger #like #nothing

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know. ↗

— Andre Maurois

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