"Intellectual labor is a common technique for the……" — Peter Straub
"Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking."
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42 Quotes by Peter Straub
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There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed…
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I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.
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Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a…
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Wolves and those who see them are shot on sight.
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Ideally, I would create a book so interdependent and self-sustaining in its parts, so wondrously connected word by word and…
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I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear.
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God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction.
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Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of…
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I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time.
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When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a…
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Everyone wants to get better as they go along, but sometimes it's all you can do to stay consistent.
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Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.
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More Avoidance Quotes
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This weapon the atomic bomb has added an additional responsibility-or, better, an additional incentive-to find a sound basis for lasting…
— Leslie Groves
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Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a…
— Louis C. K.
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Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance.
— Dan Greenburg
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We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors…
— Ihab Hassan
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In short, the greatest contribution to real security that science can make is through the extension of the scientific method…
— Edward Condon
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Avoidance of sin is lighter than the pain of remorse.
— Umar
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...probably the single-most concrete and substantive thing an American, young American, could do to lower our carbon footprint is not…
— Andrew Revkin
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Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not…
— Robert Staughton Lynd
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My commodity as a writer, whatever I'm writing about, is me. And your commodity is you. Don't alter your voice…
— William Zinsser
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The obvious danger is that in some situations [denial] can lead to procrastination in seeking help or to avoidance of…
— Unknown Author
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We have two strategies for coping; the way of avoidance or the way of attention.
— Marilyn Ferguson
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