evasion quotes

What, he speaks unseasonable truths sometimes, because he has not wit enough to invent an evasion.

-Congreve,William
  The Way of the World, act1, sc.6.

Conversation is more often likely to be an attempt at deliberate evasion, deliberate confusion, rather than communication.We're all cheats and liars, really.

-Jones,James
  Interview in the Paris Review, Winter.

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