“To ask the hard question is simple,
The simple act of the confused will.”
W. H. Auden (1907–1973) Anglo-American poet
To Ask the Hard Question is Simple, first published in book form in Poems (1930)
“There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind…”
Source: The Great Gatsby
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§ 4.25
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Paul Sloane (1950) British author and puzzle designer
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