It strikes me that what the attack on the World Trade Center stole from us is our willingness to be complex. Or what the attack on the World Trade Center revealed to us is that we were never complex. We might want to believe that we can condemn and we can love and we can condemn because we love our country, but that's too complex. Claudia Rankine
To love is to think. And I almost forget to feel only from thinking about her. I don’t know what I want at all, even from her, and I don’t think about anything but her. I have a great animated distraction. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>When I...
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Alberto Caeiro
Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever.
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Criss Jami
We're very familiar with the idea that some things are so complex they're beyond our comprehension. This not only keeps us solving and experimenting but also distracted. Many things are really so simple we can't see them under our big noses.
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Criss Jami
People often associate complexity with deeper meaning, when often after precious time has been lost, it is realized that simplicity is the key to everything.
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Unknown
It's simple, it's not that simple; or life is simple, but the things in it are not. When a man does not understand it, he tends to inflate it. When he does, he tends to deflate it. In the end, neither images are fully accurate.
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Criss Jami
More Quotes By Claudia Rankine
And as light as the rain seems, it still rains down on you.
Or one meaning of here is “in this world, in this life, on earth. In this place or position, indicating the presence of, ” or in other words, I am here. It also means to hand something to somebody– Here you are. Here, he said...
-(I)n memory, remorse wraps the self.
Sad is one of those words that has given up its life for our country, it's been a martyr for the American dream, it's been neutralized, co-opted by our culture to suggest a tinge of discomfort that lasts the time it takes for this and...
In a taxi speeding uptown on the West Side Highway, I let my thoughts drift below the surface of the Hudson until it finally occurs to me that feelings fill the gaps created by the indirectness of experience. Though the experience is social, thoughts carry...
