"Every discussion of the status of woman is complicated by the existence of the lady. She overshadows the rest of her sex."
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"it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply."
"Fiction is too complicated and too elusive to break down into a set of tricks."
"Our relationship is complicated by the fact that I am emotionally retarded."
"I think I've been able to express some of the more complicated feelings I had."
"The complicated thing about friends is that sometimes they are totally wrong about us and sometimes they are totally right and it's almost always only in retrospect that we know which is which."
"Animals are complicated and so is the animal-rights opposition. It's hard to read motives in animals, and hard to read motives in politics."
"Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite."
"Culture in its higher forms is a delicate plant which depends on a complicated set of conditions and is wont to flourish only in a few places at any given time."
"Life seems complicated to me; I feel confused a lot of the time by life. I feel confused about the fact that we can be so tender as creatures to one another, and so monstrous at the same time."
"President-elect Donald Trump is an unprecedented figure in many respects, in part because there has never been an American president who has such complicated global business interests."
"I'm not that complicated. My complications come out in my songs. All you need to do to be my friend is like me."
"I discovered early in life a stunning truth that's made my life very complicated in its wake, but that I still think is true, and it's that people are very easy to love."
"THAT’S MORTALS FOR YOU, Death continued. THEY’VE ONLY GOT A FEW YEARS IN THIS WORLD AND THEY SPEND THEM ALL IN MAKING THINGS COMPLICATED FOR THEMSELVES. FASCINATING."
"You know, the only reason net neutrality is controversial is because it's complicated."
"Evil is just sort of ultimately boring. The good thing is just complicated. It's more provocative to me and more stimulating to me."
"I realized I loved you, and I didn't want to be married to somebody I didn't love. I wanted to be married to you. It isn't all that complicated."
"I'm drawn to damaged, complicated characters."
"I mean, Deadpool has a script, but it's a very complicated process to find the right filmmaker. We'll see."
"Never trust machinery more complicated than a knife and fork."