Complicated things Quote by Douglas Woolf

“Closing the door, Claudine looked at him. She looked at him, and while he waited for some expression to come to her face he knew how a doctor must feel sometimes when he looks at a belly. For her face was no more than a cover of skin, showing nothing of the terrible, complicated things, ugly and…” quote by Douglas Woolf — Download Open image

““Closing the door, Claudine looked at him. She looked at him, and while he waited for some expression to come to her face he knew how a doctor must feel sometimes when he looks at a belly. For her face was no more than a cover of skin, showing nothing of the terrible, complicated things, ugly and beautiful, that were going on inside her.””

Douglas Woolf

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (8 ratings)

More by Douglas Woolf

“They looked so familiar that for a moment Claude feared he had doubled back to Mrs. Merritt's city, until a sudden wave of water blinded his wipers and drove him along with everyone else to the curb, where the crackling radio reported an old man had just now been swept from his backyard by a cloudburst, the latest in a…

Douglas Woolf

“With daylight (it was exactly a week since he last dressed for the office) he found himself passing through farmland over which a light…

Douglas Woolf

Image

“Beside him Mr. Harris folded his morning newspaper and held it out to Claude. "Seen this yet?" "No." "Don't read it," Mr. Harris said, folding the paper once more and sliding it under his rear. "It will only upset you, son." "It's a wicked paper... " Claude agreed, but Mr. Harris was overspeaking him. "It's the big black words that…

Douglas Woolf

“Lured by smooth roads onto a new turnpike, he read with surprise the rules he was handed, don't stop, don't turn around, pay when…

Douglas Woolf

Image

“He died of a breaking heart," Pete said, making a stout log fence of his hands around the glove compartment and leaning forward to peer at the luminous clock, "but he was an old man. He was the king of his Yaquis down there and he couldn't live any more when they took the land away. He couldn't live up…

Douglas Woolf

“Outside he hurried again, for he had several blocks to walk and the beer turned out to be no more than cool. He told himself he would remember next time to deal from the bottom - but the civil sirens sounded, surprising him with his silly private thought. That's what they blow them for. Thought is a national product, issued,…

Douglas Woolf

“Twentyone is too old to go anywhere alone, you know that. I want to go with someone. I don't mean as a bride, I'm not so gauche as that, but as a mistress or paramour or concubine or companion or friend or pal or anything else. I just don't want to be left alone! I want to get out of…

Douglas Woolf

“Yet he could not enjoy the walk. In the morning especially a bougainvillaea looks handmade, lawns are always lawns, and it is true indeed…

Douglas Woolf

Image

“He awoke on the desert gliding at seventyfive, to see a single great headlight topping a rise not far off and bearing toward him. Vaguely he remembered being under the eye of the law most of the night, pursued by cops in white cars like their uniforms, so he slowed her to an unreasonable speed and crept on with two…

Douglas Woolf

“One thing he held against the bird force was the curse of knowing always which direction he was headed in, without the vaguest idea where he was going. He headed east this time, recalling as if it were yesterday every fifth or sixth mile of the road, where they hadn't torn it up, straightened it, bent it, laid it down…

Douglas Woolf

“He found the building in front of which he had stood in the sun all day waiting to be discharged, in which the crazy…

Douglas Woolf

Image

“So he stopped at the first of them, a frigid hothouse whose front tipped forward over the street in defiance of gravity, taste, and…

Douglas Woolf

Image

Explore all 24 Douglas Woolf quotes

More Complicated things quotes

We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe.

Richard Dawkins

Image

I had forgotten this about love: how the simple things- the turn away, the turn towards- could be so complicated, and how the complicated…

David Levithan

Image

I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated.

John Barth

Image

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

E. B. White

Image

The only complicated things worth fighting for will change the world in some way and/or make you lots of money, and a complicated relationship…

Ingrid Weir

Image

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

Jean Cocteau

Image

The complicated thing about friends is that sometimes they are totally wrong about us and sometimes they are totally right and it's almost always…

Cheryl Strayed

Image

“Black wizards don't just grow up like toadstools, you know. Someone has to teach them complicated things like summoning demons, ritual magic, and clichéd…

Jim Butcher

Image

Wherever there's capitalism there's this inclination toward simplicity. There's also a human need to process complicated things by turning them into something else.

Aleksandar Hemon