"Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking."

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Source : Peter Straub (1983). “If You See Me Now”, Pocket

Peter Straub

#Thinking Quotes #Intellectual Quotes #Technique Quotes

“See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands.”
“If Paulus's army had capitulated before the end, the Russians would have had the advantage of withdrawing forces against Paulus and against the southern front, where I had only two Romanian armies. Therefore, the resistance of the Sixth German Army, even to the death of the last man, was necessary.”

Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.
“America - love it or leave it.”
“In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies”

Source : Interview with Vicki Hogarth, www.askmen.com.
“Marijuana is not not harmful, but is the least harmful psychoactive substance that we have, with the possible exception of caffeine.”
“So many people have the TV or radio constantly turned on “for company,” or spend their time reading trashy novels, aimlessly surfing the Net, and so on. Then suddenly one day you are old or sick and you realize you have done nothing with your life. All your thoughts are other people's thoughts and you have no idea who you really are or what the purpose of your life might be.”

Source : Karen Kingston (2016). “Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui (Revised and Updated): Free Yourself from Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Clutter Forever”, p.177, Harmony
“Whenever I go to work I wear a jacket and a tie, because I'm inherently quite lazy, and my books take so long to do, and my publishers don't bug me, so it's so easy to fool yourself into thinking you're working harder than you really are.”
“Michael Gove is the right leader for the country.”

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