Famous quotes containing the words simple, lie and/or groups:
“Such simple things,
And we make of them something so complex it defeats us,
Almost. Why can’t everything be simple again?...”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument.... The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.”
—Primo Levi (1919–1987)
“Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.”
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)