A Quote by Pedro Juan Gutierrez

Reality is always too complicated - that's why it's ungraspable.

Pedro Juan Gutierrez

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Pedro Juan Gutierrez
Cuban - Novelist
Born: January 27, 1950

I remember somebody saying, "I feel really bad for kids growing up around iPads right now. It's just too complicated. Life's too complicated." I think, yeah, but I remember being a kid and holding up a new piece of technology that was made in the '80s and my grandparents going, "Oh, it's too complicated." It didn't seem complicated to me.

Dan Mangan

All of those guys who told me that I was too short and how complicated the game was, it is not that complicated. It is the same game I have always played.

Doug Flutie

When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.

Wallace Shawn

At one point I had a very complicated plan to use the game of chess as a generating structure for writing. I prepared for a long time. I finally wrote two chapters and stopped. It was too complicated and too difficult to write. And who would've read it?

Dumitru Tepeneag

If someone feels that they're abandoned, there are always complicated feelings. There are always reasons for why people do the things that they do.

Maurissa Tancharoen

There's a lot of complicated magical reasons why I'm not at the party that are too long and semantic to go into.

Alden Ehrenreich

Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix.

Rob Pike

Don't accept the excuse of complexity. A lot of people will tell you, this is too challenging, this is too complicated, yeah well I know other people simplify but that's not for me, this is a complicated business. They're wrong. You can change the world in 140 characters.

Keith Rabois

We have a terrific team, and our managers are terrific managers, but we have made it too complicated for them and too complicated in a way that they just can't do an excellent job in many cases when it comes to the customer experience.

Steve Ells

Life is complicated, and art has the right to be complicated, too. I don't like films that simplify.

Pawel Pawlikowski

You're trying to make your painting too complicated. Paintings get complicated all by themselves.

Toni Onley

[Do you know] how it feels to be a clownish character? It's always complicated to imagine conveying yourself outside of your body. Inside myself I feel like this rich, complicated thing, and then I see representations of myself, especially in the media - and I think this is why it's troubling for me, because I feel so caricatured and flattened.

Kalan Sherrard

It may be that America has become too big and complicated for most people to deal with being part of. People are longing for a smaller, stupider reality.

Matt Taibbi

The reason 'closure' is a cliche is that it is used too often, too imprecisely, and doesn't in any case reflect reality. In reality, such closure in broken friendships and much else in life is rarely achieved; only death brings closure and then not always for those still living.

Joseph Epstein

Why are you so interested in amoebas?" "Oh, they're immortal," he said, "and sort of shapeless and flexible. Being a person is getting too complicated.

Margaret Atwood

Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's their takes that usually win out when the stories are too complicated or, as happens, not complicated enough.

Walter Kirn

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