Avoidance

Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth: left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide.

—Fay Weldon

Remember: no matter where you go, there you are.

—Earl Mac Rauch

All work is the avoidance of harder work.

—James Richardson in Vectors: Aphorisms & Ten-Second Essays

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

—W. Somerset Maugham