And the Sabalos family was rich - so rich, in fact, that it could afford the simple life. (DSS)
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'...the big thing about Cohen is ... he's contagious.'
'You mean like a plague carrier?' 'It's like a mental illness, sir. Or magic. He's as crazy as a stoat, but ... once they've been round him for a while, people start seeing the world the way he does. All big and simple. And they want to be part of it.' (LH) That's what the gods are! An answer that will do! Because there's food to be caught and babies to be born and life to be lived and so there is no time for big, complicated and worrying answers! Please give us a simple answer, so we don't have to think, because if we think we might find answers that don't fit the way we want the world to be. (N)
No-one could be so simple, no-one could be so creatively dumb, without being very intelligent. It was like being an actor. Only a very good actor was any good at being a bad actor. (J)
That was what was so likeable about Chidder. He had this enviable ability to avoid thinking seriously about anything he did. (P)
'Well, as a lawyer I can tell you that something that looks very simple indeed can be incredibly complicated, especially if I'm being paid by the hour. The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated.' (ISWM)
Some kinds of simplicity cost more than others. (DSS)
'There’s no greys, only white that’s got grubby. I’m surprised you don’t know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.’
‘It’s a lot more complicated than that -’ ‘No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.' (CJ) That was the trouble with slow people. Give him a fool any day. Slow people took some time to catch up, but when they did they rolled right over you. (MM)
Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was. Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid. (MA)
He was incredibly simple, but in the same way that a sword is simple, or an ambush is simple. He was also possibly the most linear thinker in the history of the universe. (TC)
Ridcully was simple-minded. This doesn’t mean stupid. It just meant that he could only think properly about things if he cut away all the complicated bits around the edges. (RM)
There are different kinds of rules. From the simple comes the complex, and from the complex comes a different kind of simplicity. Chaos is order in a mask... (TOT)
Animal minds are simple, and therefore sharp. Animals never spend time dividing experience into little bits and speculating about all the bits they’ve missed. The whole panoply of the universe has been expressed to them as things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. (ER)
'We’ve kept all this very simple so that even professors can understand!' (DW)
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