Is nothing in life ever straight and clear the way children see it?

Rosie Thomas
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  1. It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are. - David Levithan

  2. Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. - Isaac Newton

  3. 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. - Thomas Sowell

  4. 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... - Henry David Thoreau

  5. Sincerity is simplicity. - Lailah Gifty Akita

More Quotes By Rosie Thomas
  1. Things don't matter, people do

  2. I've grieved enough for his life cut short and for mine for running on for so long with so little in it. It's weakness now, but I suppose I am crying out of a general sense of loss. Maybe I am mourning for the human...

  3. The dead do not harm us, only the alive.

  4. I am afraid of reduction. After a lifetime's independence- yes, selfish independence- I am terrified of being reduced to childhood once more, to helplessness, to seas of confusion from which the cruel lucid intervals poke up like rock shoals. I don't want to sit in...

  5. Wherever you look there is so much loss and folly to contemplate.

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