„Life was a series of complicated tactical exercises …“

Quelle: Jacques the Fatalist

Quelle: This Side of Paradise

Quoted in Wayne, Jane E.: The Golden Girls of MGM: Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Lana Turner, Judy Garland, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly and Others (2003), p. 176.
On her career

Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance (2000, Harvest House Publishers)

Quoted in Balloon, Rachel. Breathing Life Into Your Characters (2003), p. 135

Quelle: A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906), Ch. I, p. 22

As quoted in "Interview: Morten Tyldum, Graham Moore of The Imitation Game" by PatrickMcD at Hollywood Chicago (11 December 2014)
Kontext: What is amazing about the story is that the most fantastic things that occur, that people most don't believe, are absolutely true — like the Soviet mole that they allowed to operate within British war intelligence — that was all true. … We condensed the timeline, essentially. The process of breaking the code was enormously complicated in real life. So one of things we wanted to do was open up Turing's story to the audience and make a film about these complicated topics, but at the same time create a narrative that the audience understands, without insulting their intelligence. But the on a broad conceptual level, everything is true.

Attributed on the internet but not found in print prior to an attribution in Aero Digest, Vols. 58–59, 1949, p. 115 https://books.google.com/books?id=q2ofAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Life+is+simple%22+but+we+insist+on+making+it+complicated&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22Life+is+simple%22+
Misattributed, Not Chinese

Quelle: King Dork

Variante: Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
Quelle: Lolita

Quelle: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Quelle: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Quelle: Forever Odd