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• Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality

  Jeff Buckley

  Ignorance, Reality, Errors

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• Fearful as reality is, it is less fearful than evasions of reality. Look steadfastly into the slit, pinpointed malignant eyes of reality as an old-hand trainer dominates his wild beasts.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Eye, Reality, Hands

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• True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end.

  Robert Musil

  People, Decision, True And False

  Robert Musil (2015). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.891, Pan Macmillan

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• So much of the work is intuitive. The resistance you detect is just that, a kind of evasion, a sense that too much analysis will inhibit creativity.

  Peter Weir

  Creativity, Analysis, Too Much

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• Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Imagination, Hiding, Direct

  "A Factless Autobiography". Book by Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith Edition, Lisbon, p. 163, 2006.

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• In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.

  Gilbert Parker

  Beautiful, Mean, Mind

  Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria

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• The evasions of her little novel were exactly those of her life. Everything she did not wish to confront was also missing from her novella--and was necessary to it.

  Ian Mcewan

  Missing, Wish, Littles

  Ian McEwan (2010). “Atonement”, p.320, Random House

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• The vanity extended most of all to his library, arguably the real love of Cicero's life. It is difficult to name anything in which he took more pleasure, aside possibly evasion of the sumptuary laws. Cicero liked to believe himself wealthy. He prided himself on his books. He needed no further reason to dislike Cleopatra: intelligent women who had better libraries than he did offended him on three counts.

  Stacy Schiff

  Real, Believe, Book

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• I think we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual evasion, desperate rearguard attempts to keep ourselves to ourselves. Communication is too alarming. To enter into someone else's life is too frightening. To disclose to others the poverty within us is too fearsome a possibility.

  Harold Pinter

  Life, Fear, Communication

  Harold Pinter (2009). “Various Voices: Sixty Years of Prose, Poetry, Politics, 1948-2008”

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• It is my secrecy which makes you unhappy, my evasions, my silences. And so I have found a solution. Whenever you get desperate with my mysteries, my ambiguities, here is a set of Chinese puzzle boxes. You have always said that I was myself a Chinese puzzle box. When you are in the mood and I baffle your love of confidences, your love of openness, your love of sharing experiences, then open one of the boxes. And in it you will find a story, a story about me and my life. Do you like this idea? Do you think it will help us to live together?

  Anais Nin

  Thinking, Ideas, Silence

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• Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now.

  Epictetus

  Giving, Challenges, Deeds

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• In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.

  Nhat Hanh

  Reality, Meditation, Encounters

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2016). “The Miracle of Mindfulness, Gift Edition”, p.60, Beacon Press

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• When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.

  Harper Lee

  Children, Tkam, Adults

  "To Kill a Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, 1962.

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• Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary one - and to live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one's own inwardness.

  Hermann Hesse

  Work, Destiny, Men

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• That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact irrevocable and that it had counted after all, every evasion and every procrastination, every mistake, every word, all of it.

  Joan Didion

  Mistake, Procrastination, Years

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Aug 16, 2011

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• In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

  George Orwell

  Birthday, Lying, Political Language

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.282, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Governing was always difficult for conservatives, but as they return to the opposition, they are rediscovering their skill at blame evasion.

  Thomas Frank

  Skills, Return, Blame

  "Richard Perle’s Apologia" by Richard Perle’s Apologia, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 29, 2009.

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• You can never truly understand or help others, even in your own family, unless you first look thoroughly into your own life and deal with your own sins without compromise, excuses, or evasion (Matthew 7:1-5).

  John C. Broger

  Helping Others, Looks, Firsts

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• Evasions are the common shelter of the hard-hearted, the false, and impotent, when called upon to assist; the real great alone plan instantaneous help, even when their looks or words presage difficulties.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Looks, Shelter, Helping

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Art, Procrastination, Apology

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.388

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• Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.

  Honore de Balzac

  Intimate, Unworthy

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• At root, evangelical anti-intellectualism is both a scandal and a sin. It is a scandal in the sense of being an offense and a stumbling block that needlessly hinders serious people from considering the Christian faith and coming to Christ. It is a sin because it is a refusal, contrary to Jesus' two great commandments, to love the Lord our God with our minds. Anti-intellectualism is quite simply a sin. Evangelicals must address it as such, beyond all excuses, evasions, or rationalizations of false piety.

  Os Guinness

  Christian, Jesus, Block

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• An ideology is a complex of ideas or notions which represents itself to the thinker as an absolute truth for the interpretation of the world and his situation within it; it leads the thinker to accomplish an act of self-deception for the purpose of justification, obfuscation and evasion in some sense or other to his advantage.

  Karl Jaspers

  Self, Ideas, Deception

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• What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.

  Edward Bond

  Play, Trying, Literature

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• Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.

  Ayn Rand

  Opposites, Two, Tolerance

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.135, Penguin

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