Quotes of Intricacy - somelinesforyou

“ All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence. ”

- Wallace Stevens

“ I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person. ”

- Martha Gellhorn

“ Learning to read has been reduced to a process of mastering a series of narrow, specific, hierarchical skills. Where armed-forces recruits learn the components of a rifle or the intricacies of close order drill "by the numbers," recruits to reading learn its mechanics sound by sound and word by word. ”

- Jacquelyn Gross

“ Anxiety is the poison of humans life. It is the parent of many sins, and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, where you may be disappointed, and be blessed in dis-appointment, what means this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can your solicitude alter the cause or unravel the intricacy of human events? ”

- Robert Blair
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