“I think the truth is always simple. It has pretty much got to be. It needs to be simple enough for a child to understand. Otherwise it'd be too late. By the time you figured it out it would be too late.”
No Country for Old Men (2005)
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American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter 1933Related quotes

“Hell is truth known too late.”
Source: The Upper Room (1888), Ch. XIX: "Thoughts for Young Men"

"The Trouble with Man is Man", The New Yorker; reprinted in Lanterns & Lances (1961).
From Lanterns and Lances

“The truth is too simple: one must always get there by a complicated route.”
Le vrai est trop simple, il faut y arriver toujours par le compliqué.
Letter to Armand Barbès, (12 May 1867), published in Georges Lubin (ed.) Correspondance (Paris: Garnier Freres, 1964-95) vol. 20, p. 412; Bruce Kajewski Traveling with Hermes (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1992) p. 32