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“One must learn to be simple, anyone can manage to be complex.”

Simple Simplicity Humble Modest Elegant Elegance Simple Living Basic Directness Simple Living And High Thinking

Book:Wealth of Words

Source: Wealth of Words

“Sometimes simplicity and elegance are indistinguishable from each other.”

Simple Simplicity Humble Modest Elegant Elegance Simple Living Basic Directness Simple Living And High Thinking

Book:Wealth of Words

Source: Wealth of Words

“According to history, quite a few times simple man turned out to be the significant man.”

Simple Simplicity Humble Clarity Modest Simple Living Uncomplicated Basic Directness Simple Living And High Thinking

Book:Wealth of Words

Source: Wealth of Words

“So few people are genuinely sincere. Most people hide their sentiments, their desires, their thoughts, behind veiled phrases, behind indirectness. When someone feels no need to do so, there is always something refreshing about it and a little frightening.”

Honesty Sentiments Desires Directness

Book:The Erotic Notebooks

Source: The Erotic Notebooks

“Most people hide their sentiments, their desires, their thoughts, behind veiled phrases, behind indirectness. When someone feels no need to do so, there is always something refreshing about it and a little frightening.”

Honesty Directness Hidden Desires Hidden Thoughts

Book:The Erotic Notebooks

Source: The Erotic Notebooks

“It’s the poet we love in Caeiro, not the philosopher. What we really get from these poems is a childlike sense of life, with all the direct materiality of the child’s mind, and all the vital spirituality of hope and increase that exist in the body and soul of nescient childhood. Caeiro’s work is a dawn that wakes us up and quickens us; a more that material, more than anti-spiritual dawn. It’s an abstract effect, pure vacuum, nothingness.”

“... I want things plain. Or direct. When I read a book I’m suspicious of description. Too much embellishment or an excess of adjectives bothers me, as if the speaker or writer were attempting to overcome me, to finesse me like a bridge player. Or to seduce me.”

Stories Reading Deception Prose Description Suspicion Directness

Book:Motion Sickness

Source: Motion Sickness

“I thought that directness spoke for itself, but hadn’t realized that the English like their ritual and distrust plain speaking as somehow mendacious. Everything has a hidden meaning, does it not? And the more direct the speech, the more carefully hidden the true meaning must be, the more effort must be expended to understand what is really being said.”

English Language Hidden Meaning Directness

Book:[The Portrait] (By: Iain Pears) [published: July, 2005]

Source: [The Portrait] (By: Iain Pears) [published: July, 2005]

“Then she told me, “You have changed my son.” Her candid tone was blunt, and I loved her directness, unapologetic as the weather.”

Evolution Confession Blunt Bonding Candid Unapologetic In Laws Directness

Author:Aspen Matis

“When things don’t add up, either you don’t have a calculator or you forgot to use commonsense by simply asking.”

Games Fear Ignorance Anxiety Perception Stupidity Nonsense Questions Speculation Commonsense Directness Lack Of Courage Poor Communication Just Ask

Author:Shannon L. Alder