“By pushing the problem into the future you don’t solve it.” — Jeanette Winterson, The Art of Fiction No. 150, the Paris Review (Winter 1997)
Tag: avoidance
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“The obvious is better than obvious avoidance of it.” — Henry Watson Fowler, A Dictionary Of Modern English Usage
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“When faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution.” — Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
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“If we are uncritical we shall always find what we want: we shall look for, and find, confirmations, and we shall look away from, and not see, whatever might be dangerous to our pet theories.” — Karl Popper, The Poverty of Historicism
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“We’re addicted to stories that can help us make conversation and take our minds off our own problems.” — Dave Pell, “Punching The Golden Ticket“ (2016-08-30)
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“The problem you can’t talk about is now two problems.” — Seth Godin, The problem you can’t talk about
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“Many people who avoid talking to one another are the people that need to be engaged in conversation the most.” — John Hoover, The Art of Constructive Confrontation
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“It came to him merely to run away was folly, because he could never run away from himself.” — Sinclair Lewis
“It came to him merely to run away was folly, because he could never run away from himself.” — Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt
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