The eastern sky was red as coals in a forge, lighting up the flats along the river. Dew had wet the million needles of the chaparral, and when the rim of the sun edged over the horizon the chaparral seemed to be spotted with diamonds. A bush in the backyard was filled with little rainbows as the sun touched the dew. It was tribute enough to sunup that it could make even chaparral bushes look beautiful, Augustus thought, and he watched the process happily, knowing it would only last a few minutes. The sun spread reddish-gold light through the shining bushes, among which a few goats wandered, bleating. Even when the sun rose above the low bluffs to the south, a layer of light lingered for a bit at the level of the chaparral, as if independent of its source. The the sun lifted clear, like an immense coin. The dew quickly died, and the light that filled the bushes like red dirt dispersed, leaving clear, slightly bluish air. It was good reading light by then, so Augustus applied himself for a few minutes to the Prophets. He was not overly religious, but he did consider himself a fair prophet and liked to study the styles of his predecessors. They were mostly too long-winded, in his view, and he made no effort to read them verse for verse–he just had a look here and there, while the biscuits were browning. Larry McMurtry
It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.
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David Levithan
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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Isaac Newton
People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.
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Thomas Sowell
I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he...
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Henry David Thoreau
Sincerity is simplicity.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
More Quotes By Larry McMurtry
Great readers (are) those who know early that there is never going to be time to read all there is to read, but do their darnedest anyway.
They probably think the sun won't come up unless you're there to allow it.
I sing about life. I am happy, but life is sad.
It was something, what must go through men's mind where women were concerned, to cause them to behave so strangely.
The thought cross his mind that he ought to have married her and not gone rambling. If he had, he wouldn't be in such a fix. But he felt little fear; just an overpowering fatigue. Life had slipped out of line. It was unfair, it...
