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“Existence was really very simple when you did what you were told.”

― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

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“Today I feel that I shall win through. I have come to the gateway of the simple; I am now content to see things as they are. I have gained freedom myself; I shall allow freedom to others. In my work will be my salvation.”

― Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World

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“life's simplest answers are often the easiest to overlook.”

― Stephen King, 11/22/63

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“Complex ideas may, perhaps, be well known by definition, which is nothing but an enumeration of those parts or simple ideas, that compose them.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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“I am convinced, that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown. These take place only in communities where some have got more than is sufficient while others have not enough.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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“This seemed simple as running water; but simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

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“When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'One word at a time,' and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time,...”

― Stephen King, The Stand

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