Wordgrove Post & Review

THIS EDITION: escape

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Quoted In The Grove:

There is a tonic strength, in the hour of sorrow and affliction, in escaping from the world and society and getting back to the simple duties and interests we have slighted and forgotten. Our world grows smaller, but it grows dearer and greater. Simple things have a new charm for us, and we suddenly realize that we have been renouncing all that is greatest and best, in our pursuit of some phantom.
~William George Jordan

Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one’s time, the better part of one’s strength, and in the end there is left a life grovelling and curtailed, worthless and trivial, and there is no escaping or getting away from it—just as though one were in a madhouse or prison.
~Anton Chekhov

Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives… and to the “good life”, whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.
~Hunter S Thompson

EndQuote:
Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
~Thomas Wolfe

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Next Prompt: help

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We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.
~Georges Duhamel

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.
~John Lancaster Spalding

You live long enough, you lose enough people, you learn to appreciate the memories you have and stop begrudging the ones you never got to make.
~Blythe Danner

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We spend more time developing means of escaping our troubles than we do solving the troubles we’re trying to escape from.
~David Lloyd

The best way to escape from your problem is to solve it.
~Robert Anthony

For intelligent people, action often means escape from thought, but it is a reasonable and a wise escape.
~Andre Maurois

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Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.
~Mason Cooley

To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.
~John Fowles

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
~T S Eliot

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I spent my childhood in an imaginary world ‒ probably because I needed an escape. I think that’s one of the reasons people have imaginations ‒ because they can’t maintain existence here.
~Rickie Lee Jones

Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it.
~Colin Wilson

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, ‘Just watch!’
~Bill Bradley

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I made a lot of exits through side doors, down fire escapes or over rooftops. I abandoned more wardrobes in the course of five years than most men acquire in a lifetime. I was slipperier than a buttered escargot.
~Frank Abagnale (security consultant/con-artist)

She clutched the train ticket tighter and waited for the sense of escape to come over her as it had a dozen times before, that heady sensation of having just scooted through the clanging gate, of eluding the thrown net. It didn’t come. She was running again, but she wasn’t escaping. She’d been chased to ground
~Connie Brockway

I’m a collector of cartoons. All the Disney stuff, Bugs Bunny, the old MGM ones. It’s real escapism, it’s like everything’s alright. It’s like the world is happening now in a far away city. Everything’s fine.
~Michael Jackson

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I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.
~Lawrence Durrell

Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book. But a book can also be where one finds oneself; and when a reader is grasped and held by a book, reading does not feel like an escape from life so much as it feels like an urgent, crucial dimension of life itself.
~Rebecca Mead

When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.
~Julian Barnes

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Play, and escaping the ideology one grew up in, is freedom.
~Frank Bidart

I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.
~Jacques Derrida (philosopher)

I think you can’t really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether it’s New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You can’t escape it, even if you completely disagree with it, you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of.
~Jack White

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No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
~George Eliot

Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you’re trying to escape?
~Marilyn French

Peace is not found by escaping temptations, but by being tried by them. We will have discovered peace when we have been tried and come through the trial of temptation.
~Thomas a Kempis

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Fiction is just that‒fiction. Yes, it is serious business, but it should also be taken for face value. It’s entertainment. It’s escapism. It’s 365 pages of relaxation.
~Rachael Wade

Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness.
~Bell Hooks

I have to say I do read partly for escapism. Why can’t I escape and learn something?
~Christopher Bollen

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There are reasons people seek escape in books, and one of those reasons is that the boundary of what can happen is beyond what we do ‒ or would want to see in real life.
~James Patterson

I love escaping into character. It’s a chance to try on people that you wouldn’t be brave or stupid enough to be in real life.
~Andrea Corr

Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people ‒ we love to escape into other characters.
~Susannah York

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Posted From The Grove

There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive, they tend to disappear.
~Calvin Coolidge

People should have an escape valve for their money, their assets. If you have substantial financial assets, the government is going to confiscate the purchasing power of those assets and spend it.
~Peter Schiff

If you are a rich person straining every sinew to keep every last pound in your pocket, there comes a point when you realize you are not just escaping the clutches of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. You are passing a greater burden on to people poorer than yourself, and depriving even poorer people of your support.
~Clive Anderson

In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
~Alexis de Tocqueville

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In this new war, our enemy’s platoons infiltrate our borders, quietly blending in with visiting tourists, students, and workers. They move unnoticed through our cities, neighborhoods, and public spaces. They wear no uniforms. Their camouflage is not forest green, but rather it is the color of common street clothing. Their tactics rely on evading recognition at the border and escaping detection within the United States. Their terrorist mission is to defeat America, destroy our values and kill innocent people.
~John Ashcroft

There is no escaping this fight. It is civilization or Jihadism. We can and should debate tactics; but the sides are clear enough.
~Andrew Sullivan

Man torturing man is a fiend beyond description. You turn a corner in the dark and there he is. You congeal into a bundle of inanimate fear. You become the very soul of anesthesia. But there is no escaping him. It is your turn now.
~Henry Miller

I intentionally aided them by being there and blocking an avenue of escape for the victims.
~Robert Iler (actor)

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When my dreams showed signs
of becoming
politically correct
no unruly images
escaping beyond borders
then I began to wonder.
~Adrienne Rich

The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
~Victor Hugo

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Narrative Collapse is what happens when we no longer have time in which to tell a story. Remote controls and DVRs give us the ability to break down narratives ‒ particularly the more abusive ones. This is a great thing for escaping the ‘ends-justify-the-means’ traps of 20th-century wars and religions, but it can also make it hard to convey values.
~Douglas Rushkoff

A harrassed and dubious childhood under the hand of a well-meaning but barbarous mother’s help from County Armagh led me to think of the North of Ireland as prison and the South as a land of escape.
~Louis MacNeice

Northern Ireland still suffers from its past, and it will take generations to escape sectarianism and for violence to end totally. Nonetheless, it is in a different place now than during the Troubles, and it will not go back to the old days.
~Jonathan Powell

There is no escape ‒ we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
~Frank Herbert

Latin America can no longer tolerate being a haven for United States liberals who cannot make their point at home, an outlet for apostles too “apostolic” to find their vocation as competent professionals within their own community. The hardware salesman threatens to dump second-rate imitations of parishes, schools and catechisms — out-moded even in the United States — all around the continent. The traveling escapist threatens further to confuse a foreign world with his superficial protests, which are not viable even at home.
~Ivan Illich

If you study both ‘Gilligan‘ and ‘Brady,’ you will see they are based on a similar philosophy: that it’s possible for different kinds of people to learn to live together, either in a family or stuck on an island with no escape.
~Sherwood Schwartz

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Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship and commerce will not escape the eye of statesmen.
~Sam Houston

Oh, it doesn’t work at all. That’s the problem! It’s an endless, halting parade of inspections, bribes, and nonsense‒but if you’re aboard a Texas vessel, you’ll find less inconvenience along the way… Texans are heavily armed and often impatient. They don’t need to be transporting arms and gunpowder to create a great nuisance for anyone who stops them, so they tend to be stopped…less often.
~Cherie Priest

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Being often with many leading politicians, I feel frustrated that they do not listen. They already know. They fully subscribed to the idea that talking about ‘saving the planet’ is an effective way to show their ‘caring’ for humanity and that it is the easiest way to maximize votes irrespective of any relevant activity which would aim at the real needs of people. The global warming dogma has become a very easy form of escapism from the current reality.
~Vaclav Klaus

A favorite means of escaping the solution to any problem is to declare it too complex for solution. This absolves us from attempting solution. … Any problem is too complex to solve when we do not wish to accept the conditions of solution. Solution is possible where acceptance is ready.
~Pearl S Buck

Now is not the time to shrink from the challenge of saving our only home in the universe. Now is not the time to pull into ourselves, retreating into either survivalist or escapist mode. To the contrary, this is the time for titans, not turtles. Now is the time to open our arms, expand our horizons, and dream big. Big problems require big solutions.
~Van Jones

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When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky….They will never be the same again because you cannot be the same once you leave behind who and what you are, you just cannot be the same….Look at them leaving in droves, despite knowing they will be welcomed with restraint in those strange lands because they do not belong
~NoViolet Bulawayo

If a Cuban refugee is escaping, we’re saying they’re a political refugee, but why isn’t a Haitian refugee a political refugee? They’re escaping the capitalism and degradation of economic imperialism. We don’t call them political refugees; we call them unfortunate people.
~Ian Svenonius

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As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism.
~Martin Lewis Perl

He had undoubtedly not availed himself of the ministry archives, archives that might have revealed to him that Iranian diplomats in Paris, from this, his own Foreign Ministry, had taken it upon themselves to issue Iranian passports to Jews escaping the very Holocaust they were aware of, but that he now denied.
~Hooman Majd (journalist)

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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
~William S Burroughs

Many Chinese criticize me not only on Baidu but on Facebook. Some say, do you think Chinese authorities were stupid enough not to realize you were a North Korean defector? If they read my book, they’d understand. I did my best to escape. I think it’s all a miracle. It’s not because Chinese policemen were stupid enough to believe my fake story.
~Lee Hyeon-seo

I think there was a reason God helped me escape… and I don’t take my freedom for granted.
~Nadia Murad

Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.
~Dennis Prager

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There’s no way to escape the fact that we’ve grown up in a violent culture, we just can’t get away from it, it’s part of our heritage. I think part of it is that we’ve always felt somewhat helpless in the face of this vast continent. Helplessness is answered in many ways, but one of them is violence.
~Sam Shepard

No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population ‒ especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings ‒ can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.
~Margaret Mead

You can’t really escape the fact that more reasonable gun regulations and procedures need to be in place, a strengthening and tightening of the national background check system. I don’t know why any civilian would ever be able to purchase an assault weapon or the parts that go with it.
~Michael Nutter

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I was a good soldier in the British Army. I was born in a very, very poor family. And I enlisted to escape hunger. But my officers were Scottish and they loved me. The Scots are good, you know.
~Idi Amin (despot, Uganda)

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Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be concerned with escaping safely‒ lay your life before him!!
~Bruce Lee

Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very real inclination to give way to dangerous tendencies merely as an escape from realities.
~William Lyon Mackenzie King

War, the ordinary man’s most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.
~Philip Caputo

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
~Thomas Mann

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The West has not lived through totalitarianism, with a single ideology for 70 years. We are escaping from the burden of the past, and only after we have done that will we be ready to integrate with Europe and Europe needs Russia.
~Boris Yeltsin

The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw back from change with the thought that the change may be for the worse, then there is no hope at all of ever escaping injustice.
~Isaac Asimov

Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don’t know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.
~Daniel Barenboim (Argentine-Israeli pianist/conductor)

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I’m proud to cosponsor the Life at Conception Act which grants rights to babies at the moment they are conceived, and the Born Alive Protection Act, that will protect innocent lives who miraculously escape death.
~Marjorie Taylor Greene

It is my position that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would be the right thing to do. No matter how I look at this issue, I cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy which forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens.
~Michael Mullen

I love America the way I love my family ‒ I was born into it. And there’s no escape out of it.
Ta-Nehisi Coates

The reason I’m not more political is because I have music. And from a young age, I needed it. After prison, my father came to America, joined the Army, fought in Vietnam ‒ and was exposed to Agent Orange. He died a slow, horrible death. Music was my escape.
~Gloria Estefan

In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems.
~Sargent Shriver

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Work is the only way ‒ the only sustainable way ‒ to escape poverty.
~Pierre Poilievre

Ten years ago, Republicans decided it was time to reform our broken welfare system and give welfare recipients the tools they needed to escape the system and build a better life.
~Todd Tiahrt

One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.
~Chris Van Hollen

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
~Lyndon B Johnson

The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case.
~Henry Louis Gates

The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
~Sydney J Harris

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No matter what system you live under, there is no escaping the law that it’s always the strongest, the cruellest, the least generous who win.
~Oriana Fallaci

Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.
~Xenophon

The thief or swindler who has gained great wealth by his delinquency has a better chance than the small thief of escaping the rigorous penalty of the law.
~Thorstein Veblen

To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.
~John Mortimer

It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.
~Sigmund Freud

To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner’s dock is disgrace.
~George Eliot

The first rule for escaping prison in the United States is always having someone more important than yourself to incriminate.
~Alan Dershowitz

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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
~Joseph Addison

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Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh.
~Mike Pence

I was one of the many horses pulling the wagon and couldn’t escape left or right because of the will of the driver.
~Adolf Eichmann (of Hitler)

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It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.
~Comte de Lautreamont

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
~Abraham Lincoln

The irony is that the people we tend to vote for actually look down on voters and voting. That’s just idiotic, right? That’s like a snake eating its own tail! A wolf in a trap gnawing off its own head to escape!
~Steven Weber

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It isn’t running away they’re afraid of. We wouldn’t get far. It’s those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge.
~Margaret Atwood

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.
~Jose Ortega Y Gasset

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Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.
~William Hague

A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
~Lucius Accius

In the last analysis, of course, an oath will encourage fidelity in office only to the degree that officeholders continue to believe that they cannot escape ultimate accountability for a breach of faith.
~James L Buckley

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It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
~Jawaharlal Nehru

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
~Abraham Lincoln

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In Hiroshima, bombed Aug. 6, 1945, no warning was given of the air attack, and thus no escape was possible for the mostly women, children and old people who fell victim.
~Lydia Millet

If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent, then you are a scoundrel… if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot. So here is a dilemma which others have suffered before us, and for which as far as I can see, there is simply no escape.
~Martin Van Creveld

The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
~Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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When you see a man led to prison say in your heart, “Mayhap he is escaping from a narrower prison.” And when you see a man drunken say in your heart, “Mayhap he sought escape from something still more unbeautiful.”
~Khalil Gibran

The evil which one suffers patiently as inevitable seems insupportable as soon as he conceives the idea of escaping from it.
~Alexis de Tocqueville

My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent.
~Jack Henry Abbott

The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run ‒ will not try to escape.
~Jack Henry Abbott

I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.
~Jack Henry Abbott

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Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape.
~Loren Eiseley

You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.
~Vernon Howard

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.
~Fyodor Dostoevsky

If you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible.
~Ram Dass

The hardest prison to escape is in your mind.
~author unknown

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Place me behind prison walls ‒ walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground. There is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape. But stand me on that floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No. Never.
~Karl G Maeser

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Black people are the magical faces at the bottom of society’s well. Even the poorest whites, those who must live their lives only a few levels above, gain their self-esteem by gazing down on us. Surely, they must know that their deliverance depends on letting down their ropes. Only by working together is escape possible. Over time, many reach out, but most simply watch, mesmerized into maintaining their unspoken commitment to keeping us where we are, at whatever cost to them or to us.
~Derrick Bell

These poor wretches were stolen from their homes, carried to a strange country, and sold to servitude, from which they sought to escape on the first occasion which offered.
~Philip Hone (NYC mayor 1826-27, noted diarist)

The people who couldn’t get out of New Orleans to escape the storm were predominantly Black.
~Charles B Rangel

The purposeful restriction of knowledge has been at the heart of untold misery and hardship in this world. Serfs were kept illiterate so as to not jeopardize the feudal system. Slaves were kept in the dark on a variety of subjects so as to not provide them the possibility of escape.
~Niger Innis

Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven.
~Samuel Hopkins

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The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death [assassinated @39], and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad’s confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies.
~Louis Farrakhan

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.
~Huey Newton (assassinated @47)

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I knew racial discrimination at its worst in the 1930s. I lived with the humility of it but I never lost my sense of humor. Humor is the escape valve from the deadly reality of adversity.
~Nipsey Russell

Certainly there is, for the American Negro artist who can escape the restrictions the more advanced among his own group would put upon him, a great field of unused material ready for his art.
~Langston Hughes

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…an unlucky accident happened to some of the French mathematicians in Peru. It seems that they were shewing French gallantry to the natives’ wives, who have murdered their servants destroyed their instruments and burnt their papers, the Gentlemen escaping narrowly themselves. What an ugly article this will make in a journal.
~Colin Maclaurin

Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses.
~Arthur Keith

There’s no question that I’m African-American. OK? I’m a black man. We’re not going to escape that.
~Mekhi Phifer

In spirituals, the talk of heaven and deliverance was code for a better life. ‘Crossing the River Jordan’ was code, of course, for escaping to freedom.
~Kathleen Battle

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~BuzzFeed Multiplayer: SEAL Team SIX Member Reveals How To Escape A Kidnapping (8:24) self-explanatory

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~Michel Sanchez: C’est la Vie (4:05) a moment of visual whimsy, for escape

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One should not associate with controversy; one should always reach for the highest ratings; one should never forget that there is safety in numbers; one should always remember that comedy, adventure, and escapism provide the best atmosphere for selling.
~Peter George Peterson (ex-Sec. Treasury)

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
~Lou Holtz

There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.
~Thomas Clarkson

However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions.
~Gerard Arpey

There is just no escaping the fact that the single biggest factor determining whether an organization is going to get healthier ‒ or not ‒ is the genuine commitment and active involvement of the person in charge.
~Patrick Lencioni

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What polluters do is raise the standards of living for themselves, while lowering the quality of living for everybody else, and they do that by escaping the disciplines of the free market.
~Robert F Kennedy, Jr

As a 25-year-old banker, I decided to leave my career and change the world. This sounds like a move that a 25-year-old banker might make today ‒ to escape the chaos.
~Jacqueline Novogratz (philanthropist)

We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it: the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.
~Pericles

An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.
~Thucydides

Economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought.
~Kenneth E Boulding

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That soul-destroying, meaningless, mechanical, moronic work is an insult to human nature which must necessarily and inevitably produce either escapism or aggression, and that no amount of ‘bread and circuses’ can compensate for the damage done‒these are facts which are neither denied nor acknowledged but are met with an unbreakable conspiracy of silence‒because to deny them would be too obviously absurd and to acknowledge them would condemn the central preoccupation of modern society as a crime against humanity.
~E F Schumacher

In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state
~Peter L Berger

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Nobody has ever gone broke selling escape to the American public.
~John Lahr

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Fake realism is the escapist literature of our time. And probably the ultimate escapist reading is that masterpiece of total unreality, the daily stock market report.
~Ursula K Le Guin

To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous.
~Gary Hamel

While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps.
~Meg Rosoff

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When stuck years ago in a job I hated, my only friend was the public bench. As the tedious mornings dragged on, how I would long for the lunch hour, when I would be able to escape the torture of the office and stroll over to the churchyard and into the comforting wooden embrace of one of its benches.
~Tom Hodgkinson

No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature, than the laborer at some close in-door employment.
~Lucy Larcom

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The real test of a bridge player isn’t in keeping out of trouble, but in escaping once he’s in.
~Alfred Sheinwold

For me, the value of a climb is the sum of three inseparable elements, all equally important: aesthetics, history, and ethics. Together they form the whole basis of my concept of alpinism. Some people see no more in climbing mountains than an escape from the harsh realities of modern times. This is not only uninformed but unfair. I don’t deny that there can be an element of escapism in mountaineering, but this should never overshadow its real essence, which is not escape but victory over your own human frailty.
~Walter Bonatti

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I’m not a gamer. But I am very aware of the escapism of drugs. In my mind those kind of do the same thing. They dull us to the aches and pains of our status quo.
~Joshua Mohr

The single biggest misconception about games is that they’re an escapist waste of time… We have to accept as a society that games are not escapist. They really do change us.
~Jane McGonigal

The Sims is an escapist vehicle for people who want to escape to where they already are, which is why I thought this game was made precisely for me.
~Chuck Klosterman

With multiplayer, permanent death, and an ever-changing world to explore and conquer, ‘A Valley Without Wind‘ might be the place you’re looking for if you need to escape the same dreary titles.
~Rob Manuel

I love sci-fi, computer games. I love any escapes. Give me them all.
~Alexander Siddig

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It’s going to be a rule, I think, for wearing a crash hat, and I actually fractured my skull through not wearing a hat. I was so lucky to escape from that, and now, it’s something I always do.
~Charlotte Dujardin (dressage champion)

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Basketball is my escape, I feel at my best when I play.
~Ja Morant

Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game.
~Alyssa Milano

When I put a quarter into an arcade machine or call up an emulated game on my computer, I do it to escape the world that is a slave to the time that makes things fall apart. I have never played these games to occupy my world.
~D B Weiss

I’d go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didn’t have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like my escape, but it was also like this huge prison because I felt like I had to swim up to people’s standards.
~Amanda Beard

It’s not so much about killing an animal, it’s being at peace and you don’t have to worry about all the other things that go on. That’s a couple of hours a week that you get to escape but it’s nice to do that.
~Brett Favre

When I walk through that gate to the court, that’s my escape. I block out everything, good and bad.
~Maria Sharapova

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My dad just wanted me to find something to do to keep me out of trouble. Boxing was the great escape.
~Diego Corrales

For most Olympic athletes, their training is their hardest challenge and where they push themselves to the limit. For Paralympians, training and competition is an escape from the hardships and struggles of their everyday life. That is the difference.
~Giles Duley

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Real life is generally much duller and inevitably sadder, most of the time. In film, you control everything that’s going on, so you can indulge the most fantastic, romantic, escapist feelings and fantasies. You can do anything you want. That’s why it’s very seductive and pleasurable to earn your living making movies because you’re not living in the real world.
~Woody Allen

Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid means of escaping from it. But diversion amuses us, and leads us unconsciously to death.
~Blaise Pascal

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While it’s really hard to do, at the same time, I’m escaping my body, which I really want to do. I’m living someone else’s life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I’m experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don’t have in my physical life.
~Laura Hillenbrand (bio/non-fiction)

I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass.
~Edward Norton

As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school and just got lost in the puzzle of acting, the magic of it. I think it was an escape for me.
~Michael J Fox

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I see myself as a character actor, and I’ve always been drawn to playing characters that are different from myself because acting is escapism for me. I’ve never been that comfortable playing people that are like me.
~Alessandro Nivola

I think you have to be very secure as an actor to escape yourself ‒ to revisit someone’s past, whether you’re portraying another person or creating someone, and then to come back to who you are and not bring those emotions with you.
~Alex Pettyfer

It’s a nice challenge to escape your reality. I think that’s why actors do what we do. We like to play other people. It’s therapeutic.
~Stella Maeve

I just find it fascinating, like everybody, to be in a different life. It’s an escape.
~Elizabeth McGovern

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Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.
~Wallace Shawn

When you’re acting, you’re escaping and hiding behind something. It’s cliched to say, but there’s a safety there.
~Tamsin Egerton

I love acting because it’s a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man’s revenge.
~Hayden Christensen

I’m starting to shake it off, I am quite self-conscious, and it’s only when I’m playing roles that I can escape that. The older I get, the more people tell me it’s absolutely fine to be the way you are with all your quirks and nuances, and I wish I’d learnt that younger ‒ I would have relaxed a bit more.
~Jessica Brown Findlay

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Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.
~Benedict Cumberbatch

I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world ‒ you can’t right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control.
~Helena Bonham Carter

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I absolutely don’t relate to being beaten down my whole life ‒ I had amazing opportunities at a young age ‒ but there is still in many, many people’s minds the notion that I’ll never be able to escape Harry Potter.
~Daniel Radcliffe

I wanted to prove that I could play something else, but there were 249 episodes out there of ‘Mayberry,’ and it was aired every day. It was hard to escape.
~Andy Griffith

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Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I’m not hiding or escaping or seeking anonymity. I reserve the right not to have a rubber stamp on my forehead saying this is who I am. Because who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.
~Alan Rickman

And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker.
~Olivier Martinez

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I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.
~Charlie Kaufman

It’s all about escapism. That’s essentially what all movies are about. It’s a vicarious thrill.
~Todd Phillips

Everyone wants to escape, everyone’s drawn to escapism to leave their lives for an hour or two, and we’re all so curious as human beings.
~Josh Bowman

The problem with most genre fantasy is that it’s not nearly fantastic enough. It’s escapist, but it can’t escape.
~China Mieville

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My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.
~Lasse Hallstrom

A studio allows me more freedom. You can create your own sort of reality which is actually more exciting than shooting on location. You can conjure up a complete atmosphere of escapism for the public.
~Ken Adam

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I guess lyrically they’re similar because they’re talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. ‘The Last One Alive,’ for me, is very simple. It’s just about alienation, really, that causes anger.
~Jon Crosby

One filmmaker makes films that are deep, intellectual, profound and confrontational. And the other one makes purely vacuous, escapist films. I’m not sure the one who makes escapist films is making a poorer contribution than the one who makes the deeper films.
~Woody Allen

It’s really fun to be in a film that’s pure entertainment, that people want to go and see. I think, in the current climate, the state of things, people want escapism.
~Sienna Miller

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More than ever, movies reveal themselves as healing, as helpful, as encouraging, as escapist ‒ anything that makes someone get through their day in these times. It’s the best form of entertainment, and it’s still arguably the most inexpensive form of entertainment.
~Nicolas Cage

It seems to me that making escapist films might be a better service to people than making intellectual ones and making films that deal with issues. It might be better to just make escapist comedies that don’t touch on any issues. The people just get a cool lemonade, and then they go out refreshed, they enjoy themselves, they forget how awful things are and it helps them ‒ it strengthens them to get through the day.
~Woody Allen

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‘Ernest Borgnine‘ is sort of my version of Woody Allen’s ‘Purple Rose Of Cairo‘ in that it’s about the occasional difficulty of coming to terms with the cold hard facts and the temptation to escape into another world ‒ like movies, for example. I’m a pro at escaping.
~John Grant

I’ve been escaping my whole life. Since I was a little child, I escaped into the movies on the other side as an audience member. I escaped by going into the movies and sitting in the movies all day long.
~Woody Allen

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For me personally, I think I just enjoy movies about werewolves or vampires because it’s not like an everyday thing. It’s something you can really escape into.
~Agnes Bruckner

I love going to movies. It’s just big, it takes you away, you can escape into it.
~Tom Welling

People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape.
~Neil LaBute

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I do know that I’ve read somewhere that it’s been statistically proven that in times of war, horror films are much more popular. I don’t know why that is. You’d think it’d be the opposite. You’d think people would want to escape from it.
~Aaron Stanford

It’s the reason we go to films and watch television: to escape the mundane nature of life and see another world and see ourselves in that other world. I think that’s what sci-fi does so well.
~Tatiana Maslany

I think we simply all like to project ourselves into somebody else somebody who is better-looking, richer, smarter. It’s comforting. It’s escapism, and that, of course, is what the movies are supposed to be all about. Ultimately, I think it’s just part of human nature to pretend.
~Richard D Zanuck

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Television’s escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living beyond one’s means as the time-tested American Way and rarely depicts families or individuals wracked by the pressures and miseries that come with excess.
~Tom Shales

You can’t escape ‘Star Trek‘ influence, especially characters you literally grew up with.
~Tamlyn Tomita

I don’t go out to parties because I’d look terrible in pictures. My escape is television ‒ it’s like meditation to me.
~Alber Elbaz

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The physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together or whether the set has an escape place in it.
~Elia Kazan

We all have an escape. Mine was theater.
~Samantha Barks

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It’s the relationship I have with the world: always trying to escape from reality. I’m a daydreamer; I don’t feel in harmony with my epoch or the societies I live in.
~Amin Maalouf (French-Lebanese author)

In my youth, daydreaming nurtured me, provided a safe haven. I’d sleep for twelve hours and even when awake escape to the safe place in my mind.
~Sandra Cisneros (American author)

I’m a massive daydreamer. I’m constantly lost within my own fantasies and my own thoughts personally, and I think maybe that is sort of represented in what we do for a living, the fact that we make believe everything and we escape into these other characters for a living.
~Emily Browning (Aussie actor)

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
~Edgar Allan Poe (writer)

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Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher’s the poet’s equal there.
~Emil Cioran (Romanian philosopher)

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It’s about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality.
~Ellen Burstyn

Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.
~Douglas Coupland

I was always someone who lived in the future all the time, it was always the next thing ‒ dreams of escape.
~Julie Walters

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Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape?
~Geraldine Chaplin

A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.
~Wentworth Miller

Escape into the dream. Escape, a key thing charged against these drugs, that they are for escapists. I think the people who make this charge hardly dare dream to what degree they are escapist.
~Terence McKenna

You cannot find any peace by escaping from human pain and suffering; you have to find peace and harmony right in the midst of human pain. That is the purpose of spiritual life
~Dainin Katagiri

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~Omeleto: The Exit Plan (14:03) in a world starved for resources…

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But the sound of water escaping from mill-dams, &c., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things. Shakespeare could make everything poetical; he tells us of poor Tom’s haunts among “sheep cotes and mills.” As long as I do paint, I shall never cease to paint such places. They have always been my delight.
~John Constable

I know the world that I am painting is not a reality. It is a whim, an entertainment to provoke something in people, whether as escapism or relief. I think that is very valid.
~Tim Walker

It’s still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don’t think I would do it otherwise.
~Peter Doig

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Degas was obsessed by the art of classical ballet, because to him it said something about the human condition. He was not a balletomane looking for an alternative world to escape into. Dance offered him a display in which he could find, after much searching, certain human secrets.
~John Berger

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I could feel myself changing physically. It was like something dropped out of the sky. Seeing her on the fire escape had given me a certain feeling, and then when I saw the photograph of her, it gave me a similar feeling. And I thought that was an incredibly powerful thing ‒ that a photograph could give you a feeling that was similar to a feeling you had in the physical world. Nobody could’ve told me that. I knew what I was going to do for the rest of my life.
~Henry Wessel, Jr

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Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.
~Karen Abbott

One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the early 20th century, especially his escape from the Chinese water torture cell, represented triumph over suffocation, drowning, disorientation and helplessness.
~Criss Angel

Houdini connected to people on an emotional level so that when he would escape that straight jacket it wasn’t about the straight jacket. It was about people looking at it and escaping poverty. When you have that it’s the truest form of magic.
~Criss Angel

There’s something about the Houdini act that is not always made clear ‒ about the escape act in general.
~James Randi

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Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.
~Rem Koolhaas

I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. You can’t ignore history; you can’t escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.
~Frank Gehry (architect)

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My dad put me in a theater group camp at Santa Monica Playhouse when I was, like, six, and then I started to realize I really liked it when I was 11 or 12; it was nice to just escape.
~Diana Silvers

The first song that I wrote was when I was with The Del Rios. I was like 14 years old but I was always putting my thoughts down on paper even before then because it was like an escape ‒ a way of unleashing all the stuff.
~William Bell

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn’t think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.
~Paul Auster

I didn’t really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment.
~David Knopfler

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I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me.
~Charlie Hunnam

There is a core of loneliness. It’s partly existential. Secondly, I was raised a loner. My parents were not there. My father was asked to leave because he couldn’t metabolize ethanol. Actually, my mother ran away with us when I was 2 months old and my brother was 5. Real dramatic stuff: down the fire escape, through backyards. So, I sort of raised myself. I was alone a lot and I invented myself ‒ I lived through the radio and through my imagination.
~George Carlin

A climb-out fight is where you climb a building. You climb fire escapes. You climb to the top of the building. You fight on the roof, and you fight all the way down again.
~Jack Kirby

To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicago’s second city of garages was my young life’s passion.
~Lynn Margulis

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The experience I learned was that … if you leave decision to the public, you can be killed… I felt really violated: they cut my clothes, stuck rose thorns in my stomach, one person aimed the gun at my head, and another took it away. It created an aggressive atmosphere. After exactly 6 hours, as planned, I stood up and started walking toward the public. Everyone ran away, escaping an actual confrontation.
~Marina Abramovic (performance artist)

My mom didn’t let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It’s all escapism.
~Wayne Brady

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After I had done the first ‘Pirates‘ movie and ‘Secret Window,’ I went on vacation to escape with my kiddies and my girl, and someone said that there was an island down the road for sale. I said, ‘Oh well, let’s go see it.’ I looked at it, I walked on it, and I was done. It had to be.
~Johnny Depp

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
~Alice Hoffman

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The arts were a big part of my childhood. We went to the theatre and opera a lot as a family. We were not at all wealthy, but it was at a time when the arts were publicly funded and there were free tickets available. For someone like myself who wasn’t that academically inclined, it was a great escape.
~Sarah Jessica Parker

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.
~John Lennon

This is who I am
Escapist
Paradise Seeker
Farewell, time to fly
Out of sight
Out of time
Away from all lies
~Tuomas Holopainen

I like big escapist films. It’s odd because the type of comedian I am and the things I do when I’m writing and directing myself usually deal with the darker side of the human psyche and excruciating social faux pas. I often deal in taboos and the subjects I do as a stand-up are quite challenging. But my film roles have been much more fun and escapist.
~Ricky Gervais

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Childhood didn’t have a big influence on me, really ‒ in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.
~Simon Callow

I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn’t want to be a child.
~Maurice Sendak

I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape.
~Dennis Rodman

I was a scared kid… I think I was born a nervous wreck, and I think movies were one way to find a way transferring my own private horrors to everyone else’s lives. It was less of an escape and more of an exorcism.
~Steven Spielberg

A child can escape the shadows.
~Steve Largent

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Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence.
~Steven Mason

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
~Thomas Carlyle

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When I was three, my father was three. When I was six, he was six… he needed me to escape from being 50.
~Christopher Robin Milne

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.
~William Inge

We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.
~Margaret Atwood

Maturity is having the ability to escape categorization.
~K Rexroth

Nobody escapes age and gravity.
~Harlan Ellison

To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.
~Jose Bergamin

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I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.
~Jean-Paul Sartre

I was suddenly really famous, and I didn’t know how to cope. I didn’t know myself well enough as a person, number one, and as an actor, number two. I wanted to escape.
~Kate Winslet

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I’m not too keen on talking. I always have the feeling that the words are getting away from me, escaping and scattering. It’s not to do with vocabulary or meanings, because I know quite a lot of words, but when I come out with them they get confused and scattered. That’s why I avoid stories and speeches and just stick to answering the questions I’m asked. All the extra words, the overflow, I keep to myself, the words that I silently multiply to get close to the truth.
~Delphine de Vigan (Fr novelist)

That’s the thing about interviews, at some point you’re going to change your mind. But it’s there forever and you can’t escape it.
~Martha Plimpton

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The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.
~Jean Racine

If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase, and the approbation of my dog would forsake me then. My barefoot rank is better.
~Emily Dickinson

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We call the beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good and the heartlessness of the true.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business‒not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but sometimes a means of holding on to the real when everything is flaking away into… rhetoric and plot.
~Elizabeth Gilbert

Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
~Walter Scott

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We’re so trendy we can’t even escape ourselves.
~Kurt Cobain

Even the Beatles found it hard to escape their image; they were trapped by it.
~Tina Weymouth

The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
~Cesare Pavese

The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.
~Albert Einstein

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Music to me is so internal. It’s physical and it’s emotional. Whereas fashion is so much about the external that it’s almost like a break. It’s not inner turmoil. It’s total escapism.
~Florence Welch

Fashion is so close in revealing a person’s inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It’s really too close to the quick of the soul. Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world’s view of us. Don’t be into trends. Don’t make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live. Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.
~Stella Blum

There’s a side to me that likes to make clothes for everyday. But I also think of fashion as an escape. It’s like a dream. Even in an economy that isn’t strong and where it’s important to sell clothes, you have to make things that let people dream a little.
~Joseph Altuzarra

Fashion is, after all, a form of escapism, and in fact people are buying more special things than ever, nowadays. They deny and deny themselves, and wait and wait, and then they get sick of it and spend to make themselves feel better.
~Tom Ford

A hat is a shameless flatterer, calling attention to an escaping curl, a tawny braid, a sprinkling of freckles over a pert nose, directing the eye to what is most unique about a face. Its curves emphasize a shining pair of eyes, a lofty forehead; its deep brim accentuates the pale tint of a cheek, creates an aura of prettiness, suggests a mystery that awakens curiosity in the onlooker.
~Jeanine Larmoth

But I was always much more interested in reading fashion magazines than I was music magazines when I was a teenager. Just that sense of romanticism and escapism and the dream of it has always been quite alluring to me, as well as that sense of becoming a character through clothes.
~Florence Welch

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Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape.
~Shania Twain

Music is supposed to be an escape. It’s supposed to be somewhere you go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you want to be.
~Joel Madden

With all the negativity going on in the world right now, people need an escape. When you give them a hit record or a great record, it allows them to escape for at least three to four minutes. They’re not thinking bills or economy or immigration or war when you create that kind of ambiance.
~Pitbull

From my perspective, music allows me to escape from the world of what is happening right in front of me… to the world of my thoughts, my dreams, my hopes and ideas ‒ for the world, for my own life, for the day, even for the moment.
~Danielle de Niese (opera)

Singing is a way of escaping. It’s another world. I’m no longer on earth.
~Edith Piaf

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Jimi Hendrix’s music was escapism.
~Perry Farrell

Frank Zappa was one of the gods of the Czech underground, I thought of him as a friend. Whenever I feel like escaping from the world of the Presidency, I think of him.
~Vaclav Havel

Music is always my great escape… I get to be that wild child and do whatever the hell I want on stage.
~Perry Farrell (Jane’s Addiction)

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Everyone needs an escape, whether that is through music or humor. My personal escape is through both of those things so I thought why not combine them? But not in a cringe way, I don’t want to make parody songs. I just want my music to have a humorous edge to it.
~Ashnikko

My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them ‒ I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.
~Jakob Dylan

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The thing about rock is that people are not just interested in bands because of where they want to go. It’s where they want to escape from that matters.
~Colin Greenwood

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.
~Thom Yorke

There’s something about music that makes me feel like a different person, that feels like an escape.
~Tatiana Maslany

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What motivates me is seeing people in the crowd and wondering what they’re going home to and what they’re dealing with, and knowing that for the time being we’re their escape.
~Hayley Williams (Paramore)

I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it’s not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism.
~Peter Hook

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Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It’s a platform where we could offer information, but it’s also an escape.
~Busta Rhymes

You know how a lot of people say, ‘I lose myself in music,’ or ‘I like to escape,’ but I want my music to be more of an awakening. I want it to make people to be aware of life; I don’t want my music to be a distraction. I want to light a path.
~Jhene Aiko

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All in all, I think that out of all musical genres, the world of metal is the most escapist one. Metal is also music for people who think for themselves. I think metalheads are smart people who possess a healthy dose of self-irony and a good sense of humor, and that appeals to me. I felt a strong affinity with the scene from the first moment on.
~Tuomas Holopainen (Finn, Nightwish)

If someone has been escaping reality, I don’t expect him to dig my music.
~Charles Mingus

Whether a person is spiritual or not, we all seek to get away from the stress, anger, and anxiety of everyday life. Some people drink, do drugs, or do worse to escape, and they hurt themselves in the process. Some people listen to music, mine included [ethereal], and feel better.
~Yanni

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Elvis’ early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits.
~Greil Marcus

For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that’s what art is.
~Iggy Azalea

I’ve never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There’s always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.
~Thom Yorke

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.
~Agnes Obel

My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up ‒ not to be escapist but to take you out of misery.
~Allen Toussaint

Music is escapism from the grim realities of life. But then as soon as you escape into the music, from my point of view, I found I had to deal with the very things that I thought I was running away from. I wanted to hit those problems on the head and resolve them. So they didn’t remain as issues in my psyche.
~John Lydon

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Now there is no taboo; everything is allowed. But one cannot simply go back to tonality, it’s not the way. We must find a way of neither going back nor continuing the avant-garde. I am in a prison: one wall is the avant-garde, the other wall is the past, and I want to escape.
~Gyorgy Ligeti

My main interest in synthesizers when I was an older teenager was to escape from the spell of the 12-tone system or, in a more broad sense, the spell of the European modern-music system. That led me to explore towards electronic music and ethnic music.
~Ryuichi Sakamoto

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You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first.
~John Lydon

Mozart’s music is constantly escaping from its frame, because it cannot be contained in it.
~Leonard Bernstein

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The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal.
~Henry Miller
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Of course, I would be depressed sometimes, and my Mom would be worried about me because I would just sleep to escape. Cause I was so scared of being a musician or artist, or whatever you want to call it.
~Chantal Kreviazuk

Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budget and their social relations so unsuccessfully that I wouldn’t want them for my landlords, or my bankers, or my neighbors. They were valuable, like powerful stimulants, only when they were left out of the social and industrial routine.
~Willa Cather

As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment.
~Peter Wright

My art practice eventually arrived at a point where I had freedom from various limiting conditions; the institutional mindset is not airtight and isn’t altogether ideologically programmed. There are ways of escaping.
~Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook (Thai)

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Creativity is what helps me escape a lot of my inner demons.
~Demi Lovato

People talk about escapism as if it’s a bad thing… Once you’ve escaped, once you come back, the world is not the same as when you left it. You come back to it with skills, weapons, knowledge you didn’t have before. Then you are better equipped to deal with your current reality.
~Neil Gaiman

People talk about escapism as though it’s something nasty but escapism is wonderful!
~Margaret Forster

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I wondered why people consider escapism so bad, even the escapism on display right then. At first it might appear unseemly, but in the end its lack of pretension gives it its own sort of beauty.
~Saadat Hasan Manto

We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.
~Raoul Vaneigem

Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries in our own skulls, we can begin to contemplate an art which re-creates the goal of the sorcerer: changing the structure of reality by the manipulation of living symbols … Art tells gorgeous lies that come true.
~Hakim Bey

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People tend to turn to the type of entertainment that has an escapism quality.
~Melissa Joan Hart

People want to see big, escapist fare. They don’t want to be challenged to think.
~Harvey Weinstein

That is what art is at the end of the day: It’s an escapism that we all crave.
~Lauren Jauregui

Every single bit of entertainment is escapism. It’s because you are saying, “Let’s see what this other person’s life is like.” And also it’s beyond escapism, its entertainment and art as such can elevate the species. The entertainer supposedly is the muse.
~Bruce Campbell

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Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.
~Chuck D

My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.
~Jess C Scott (author)

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Movies and novels, the two things that informed and taught me the most, are forms of escapism. I thought that was how life could look if you wanted it to.
~Jason Diamond

I think escapism is very important, certainly in my life. I love nothing more than escaping into the world of a film or a novel. To be involved in creating that for other people is a privilege.
~Ben Barnes

I’ll probably never win an Oscar, but I’ll sure have a lot of fun! I really believe that movies are the great escape.
~Steven Spielberg

To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken it will enter the regions of childhood vision and dream.
~Giorgio de Chirico

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My eyes has been my camera taking pictures of the world and my songs has been my messages that I tried to scatter across the back sides and along the steps of the fire escapes and on the window sills and through the dark halls.
~Woody Guthrie

I stand, limited primitive, sentimentalist, escapist
The way I shape this landscape, automatically makes this, vivid
I give it a rivet, hold it, stand at the pivot
I love it, learn to live it, then give you my exhibit
~Aceyalone

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One way of understanding a graphic novel is that it’s an ambitious comic and one way or another my comics have had ambitions. I have no problem with escapism. When I get my depressions all I want to do is escape reality.
~Art Spiegelman (Maus)

Art and religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstacy.
~Steve Mason

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I think I may have become an actor to hide from myself. You can escape into a character.
~John Candy

I’m the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me.
~Helena Bonham Carter

Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsciously trying to blot out who they actually are. You want to escape yourself.
~Mary Karr

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
~Samuel Johnson

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There’s so much going on in the world. There’s so much information being thrown at us ‒ so many things are being sold to us, and we’re being told how we should appear and how to be more successful, blah, blah, blah. How does that manifest itself? In the pressures, the stress, this need to escape.
~Michael Fassbender

You’re always in a box, and you’re an escape artist if you do what I do ‒ or if you’re a creative person, period. You build your box, and then you escape from it. You build another one, and you escape from it. That’s ongoing.
~Bruce Springsteen

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
~Graham Greene

Every work of art is a great promise of escape and, therefore, like an open invitation.
~Maurizio Cattelan

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The escape to an unchallenging fairy tale can be very nice and I’m all for that, but film can also challenge you to confront the realities of our world.
~Ezra Miller

You can’t just have stuff that is free and escapist, you have to have stuff that is confrontational as well. You need stuff that is mystical but you need the realism too.
~Irvine Welsh

All of us use art and literature as an escape from time to time, but if it’s any good, it has a healing quality ‒ a quality that enlarges our human spirits.
~Katherine Paterson

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I want to make it clear: it’s not that I hate mainstream cinema. It’s perfectly fine. There are a lot of people who need to escape, because they are in very difficult situations, so they have the right to escape from the world. But this has nothing to do with an art form.
~Michael Haneke

The ultimate in art is self-expression not escape.
~Duke Ellington

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~WhatTheGenre: Deadmaus5&Kaskade • Escape, ft. Hayla (3:52) languid/sultry and high energy cohabit

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~Enrique Iglesias: Escape (3:29) escaping love, failing at it

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~Alasdair Braxton: The Weeknd • Escape from LA (2:06) confessional, dance video

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~TopPop: Ruper Holmes • Escape (The Pina Colada Song) painfully, adorably dweebish

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~Goteee Records: Relient K • Be My Escape (3:09) a world closing in needs one

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~Travis Scott: Escape Plan (2:45) taste of the wild side, the plan, anyway

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~Boys Like Girls: The Great Escape (3:27) graduation, a celebration

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~MadVictor: Assassin’s Creed • Escape, ft. Summer Haze (2:38) it remains unclear whether it is the Assassin or the dead who escape

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~Carlo Seda: Escape (2:17) from another place on the planet

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~Nemzzz: Escape (2:08) bling’s the thing

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~Gwen Stefani: The Sweet Escape, ft. Akon (4:06) stylish fun

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~She is Legend: Moon Day Real Escape (1:55) girl band, Japanese in style & voice, anime

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~Antexon: Steve Barakatt • Escape (3:52) piano w/ orchestra

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~imase: Escape (3:12) charming, and just because, minimally animated

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~Stray View: Escape (3:55) rock ‘n roll in sea-green and vine

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~Epitaph Records: Sage Francis • Escape Artist (4:07) foot-chase against a bit-of-the-bizarre in black, rap happenin’ in the background

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No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.
~Jiddu Krishnamurti

Anyone with a heart, with a family, has experienced loss. No one escapes unscathed. Every story of separation is different, but I think we all understand that basic, wrenching emotion that comes from saying goodbye, not knowing if we’ll see that person again ‒ or perhaps knowing that we won’t.
~Luanne Rice

The problem with escaping is that we leave behind us, even among those we love, different versions of the truth and everything we couldn’t bring ourselves to say.
~Frederick Weisel

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Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
~George William Curtis

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Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
~Bertrand Russell

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.
~Jiddu Krishnamurti

Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
~Bell Hooks

When the eternal and the human meet, that’s where love is born — not through escaping our humanity or trying to disappear into transcendence, but through finding that place where they come into union.
~Adyashanti

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Marriage is a kind of prison for anyone who’s miserable in it ‒ men and women alike ‒ and anyone who’s suffered through difficult periods in marriage dreams of escape from it.
~Adam Ross

It just seems like the most successful, iconic love stories are not so easy or escapist. I think the ones that stay with us and resonate are full of conflict, discord and misunderstandings ’cause that’s what makes drama happen or tension even if it’s a comedy.
~Claire Danes

Usually I’m on top to keep the guy from escaping.
~Lisa Lampanelli (comedian)

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The office is a romantic enabler because you’re always around the person you have a crush on. There’s no escape from, and maybe no desire to escape from, those pressure-cooker conditions. And there’s an automatic series of things you have to talk about all the time.
~Joshua Ferris

Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you ‒ the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love ‒ may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State, and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave.
~Elizabeth Gilbert

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She placed her palm over his wound, pressing as hard as she dared. She would stop the blood. She would hold him and stop his life from escaping. She would hold life inside him and he wouldn’t die
~Michael Grant

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman’s eyes.
~Clare Boothe Luce

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I could always escape into this demi-monde of homosexuality, which I feel really indebted to. It stopped me being a ‘mummy’s boy.’
~Rufus Wainwright

We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our great deed of escape from Mama with every other woman in our life?
~Frank Pittman

You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can’t say I do like it very much.
~Doris Lessing

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In gay culture hookups are a way of escaping your class.
~Hank Azaria

So tired of this straight line, and everywhere you turn
There’s vultures and thieves at your back
The storm keeps on twisting, you keep on building the lies
That you make up for all that you lack.
It don’t make no difference, escaping one last time
It’s easier to believe
In this sweet madness, oh this glorious sadness
That brings me to my knees.
~Sarah McLachlan

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart.
How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart.
Those escape your anger who refuse your sway,
and those are punished most, who most obey.
~Matthew Prior

Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.
~Jiddu Krishnamurti

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You know what’s funny? I don’t ever feel the need to escape. I have a strong marriage. I like my life. You hear about these guys having midlife crises ‒ I don’t see that happening to me.
~Harry Connick, Jr

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it is better to listen to what it has to say.
~Paulo Coehlo

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I can’t escape being born in Pike County, Kentucky, grandson of a miner, Luther Tibbs, and his wife, Earlene, and traveling as a child up and down Route 23 between Kentucky and Columbus, Ohio, where I was raised, experiencing life via working-class people. Nor do I want to escape.
~Dwight Yoakam

When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I’ve found it hard to read as much as I’d like, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so.
~Louise Brown

The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.
~Dodie Smith

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I had to escape the destruction of my father’s bankruptcy and all that difficulty.
~Brendan Coyle

The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a wonderful cabinet-maker, and me being the eldest son, I had to take over his shop, his profession and so on and so on. I tried to escape by going to art school and then going on to industrial design and then interior design.
~Peter Zumthor (architect)

He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape from him when he was angry. If he wanted to beat us he would always catch us. Even me, he could always catch me.
~Haile Gebrselassie (2 Olympic Gold)

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I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn’t just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom’s voice that I came out of my hiding place.
~Zhang Ziyi

I never knew how protective I was until I had my own child. I’m already thinking about intruders coming into the house and what our escape route would be.
~Jessica Simpson

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When you live on the road, going home is a place to escape and just be with your family to unwind.
~Jonathan Davis

Most people who are on the road are pretty damaged. It’s an escapist’s life. It’s not a life that forces you to look in the mirror at where you’re at and what you’re doing. It’s one where you leave the mirror behind. I think that appeals to something in all of us. On the open road, all of your regrets are out the window.
~Gavin Rossdale

Not that running away’s going to solve everything. I don’t want to rain on your parade or anything, but I wouldn’t count on escaping this place if I were you. No matter how far you run. Distance might not solve anything.
~Haruki Murakami

That’s the funny thing about trying to escape. You never really can. Maybe temporarily, but not completely.
~Jennifer L Armentrout

Paradise was always over there, a day’s sail away. But it’s a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home.
~J Maarten Troost

Think you’re escaping and run into yourself.
Longest way round is the shortest way home.
~James Joyce

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I still frequent my parents’ house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and feel small.
~Robert Smith

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Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within the construct of a story.
~Caitlin Flanagan

One of the biggest motivations for me with writing my books is to offer girls some escapism, especially girls who really need it, like I did.
~Meg Cabot

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For immigrant women, the very act of immigration is about opportunity, equality, and freedom. Women immigrants come to America to care for their families, escape gender-based violence, or express their sexual identity.
~Pramila Jayapal

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
~Andrea Dworkin

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In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If he cannot silence her absolutely, he tries to make sure no one listens.
~Judith Lewis Herman

Not by the forces of civil war can you govern the very weakest woman. You can kill that woman, but she escapes you then; you cannot govern her. No power on earth can govern a human being, however feeble, who withholds his or her consent.
~Emmeline Pankhurst

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They’re not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
~Steve Buscemi

I live in my own bubble. I was looking for an audience that wouldn’t necessarily be looking for escapism when they came to my comics.
~Art Spiegelman

Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there’s been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you. You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there’s a certain feeling when you’re sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it’s just pure escapism and they’re happy.
~Gabrielle Union

I like to laugh. It’s kind of escapism. I like to make people laugh. And I kind of like people just to have to not think about anything
~Chelsea Handler

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Some movies are so bad, it is hard to believe they were ever released; they probably escaped.
~Evan Esar

Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
~Bram Stoker

I have no religion, but I can’t escape being extremely Jewish ethnically ‒ that is, culturally. In other words, I’m not religious, but I worry and I’m neurotic. And I’m very good with money.
~Sarah Silverman

If you’re drunk please don’t drive. If you’re on shrooms please don’t think… Walmart’s a prison for bad clothing that needs help escaping.
~Dane Cook

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Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
~Christopher Fry

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From the time of Adam and Eve, man has tried to escape suffering in any form.
~Mother Angelica

No one can escape life’s pain. That’s life.
~Pierce Brosnan

I have been very fortunate as to escape through another day’s very severe fighting and escaped unhurt.
~John Hunt Morgan (Confed. Gen, killled by Union pvt who had served under him)

If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this ‘vale of tears’.
~Claude Vorilhon

Live with it. You live with pleasure, don’t you? Why don’t you live with suffering completely? Can you live with it in the sense of not escaping from it? What takes place? Watch. The mind is very clear, sharp. It is faced with the fact. The very suffering transformed into passion is enormous. From that arises a mind that can never be hurt. Full stop. That is the secret.
~Jiddu Krishnamurti

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
~Haruki Murakami

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Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
~Henry Ward Beecher

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
~Aristotle

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?
~Jean-Jacques Rousseau

If there’s ever been a dark moment in my life… well, I wanted to check out. Music was a big escape.
~Gloria Estefan

You have to respect the decision to die. It is the ultimate statement of faith in life, that it is worthy of surrender, but not escape.
~author unknown

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Death was like love, a romantic escape.
~Brigitte Bardot

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind, it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
~Francois Marie Arouet

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.
~Ellis Peters

Death is the one predator we can’t escape. But vampires have found the loophole so many of us crave. I think that’s the allure of vampirism.
~Sherrilyn Kenyon

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Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy–a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does not work for your own destruction, not the joy of escaping from your mind, but of using your mind’s fullest power, not the joy of faking reality, but of achieving values that are real, not the joy of a drunkard, but of a producer.
~Ayn Rand

Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?
~Frederic Chopin

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I meant that people will take anything that gives them a lift, whether it’s alcohol or cocaine or the consciousness-expanding drugs or opiates. In Iran, until recently, they sold opium in shops legally, and they had 3,000,000 addicts in a population of 15,000,000 [current pop, 91,000,000]. I don’t believe that all those people were escaping from “complexes” or anything of the sort. They were simply exposed to it.
~William S Burroughs

Ecstasy is a complex emotion containing elements of joy, fear, terror, triumph, surrender, and empathy. What has replaced our prehistoric understanding of this complex of ecstasy now is the word comfort, a tremendously bloodless notion. Drugs are not comfortable, and anyone who thinks they are comfortable or even escapist should not toy with drugs unless they’re willing to get their noses rubbed in their own stuff.
~Terence McKenna

Use them with care, and use them with respect as to the transformations they can achieve, and you have an extraordinary research tool. Go banging about with a psychedelic drug for a Saturday night turn-on, and you can get into a really bad place, psychologically. Know what you’re using, decide just why you’re using it, and you can have a rich experience. They’re not addictive, and they’re certainly not escapist, either, but they’re exceptionally valuable tools for understanding the human mind, and how it works.
~Alexander Shulgin

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Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
~Jean Cocteau

When you refrain from habitual thoughts and behavior, the uncomfortable feelings will still be there. They don’t magically disappear. Over the years, I’ve come to call resting with the discomfort “the detox period,” because when you don’t act on your habitual patterns, it’s like giving up an addiction. You’re left with the feelings you were trying to escape. The practice is to make a wholehearted relationship with that
~Pema Chodron

You say escaping reality, I say expanding life
You deny possibilities, I’m into exploring why
You’re into rife ‘n strife, I’m into love ‘n stuff
Found then lost, let’s call the whole thing off
~pinkyswear

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Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.
~Geoffrey S Fletcher (writer/director)

There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.
~Patrick Rothfuss

People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.
~John Forbes Nash, Jr

I think mental illness or madness can be an escape also. People don’t develop a mental illness because they are in the happiest of situations, usually. One doctor observed that it was rare when people were rich to become schizophrenic. If they were poor or didn’t have too much money, then it was more likely.
~John Forbes Nash, Jr

Escapism has value, even if I don’t know what its value is, exactly. Maybe it’s just part of some healthy way that we deal with the world.
~Lev Grossman

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Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients.
~Carl Levin

It’s essential I look after myself, because of what I put my body through in stunts as an actor, and even more through the fishing journeys. Trekking through jungles is tough. We don’t escape to hotels and if I’m living with tribes on the bank of a river, I camp out under a canopy or kip in a canoe.
~Robson Green

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The anorexic body is held in the grip of will alone; its meaning is far from stable. What it says ‒ ‘Notice me, feed me, mother me’ ‒ is not what it means, for such attentions constitute an agonising test of that will, and also threaten to return the body to the dreaded ‘normality’ it has been such ecstasy to escape.
~Rachel Cusk

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.
~Peter De Vries

You cannot escape from the biological law of cause and effect ‒ food choices are the most significant cause of disease and premature death.
~Joel Fuhrman

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“The mighty hunter,” I quipped as we snuck out the backdoor, escaping into the yard. “He can take down vicious rabids and rampaging boars, but one old lady can make him flee in terror.””One scary old lady,” he corrected me, looking relieved to be out of the house. “You didn’t hear what she told me when I got up ‒ you’re so cute I could put you in a pie. Tell me that’s not the creepiest thing you’ve ever heard.” His voice climbed a few octaves, turning shrill and breathy. “Today for dessert, we have apple pie, blueberry pie and Ezekiel pie.”
~Julie Kagawa

I drove through the stockyards of Texas on a motorcycle. It doesn’t let you escape what surrounds you and what it smells like and feels like ‒ and what hit me was the realization that something that was alive and had feelings will suffer before a piece of it is placed on our plates.
~James Cromwell

No matter where you are you can grow something to eat. Shift your thinking and you’d be surprised at the places your food can be grown! Window sill, fire escape and rooftop gardens have the same potential to provide impressive harvests
~Greg Peterson

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For I Have Known Fire and I Shall Know Fire Again

© Chet Nickerson

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It’s very difficult to escape your background. You know, I don’t think it’s necessary to even try to escape it. More and more, I start to think that it’s necessary to see exactly what it is that you inherited on both ends of the stick: your timidity, your courage, your self-deceit, and your honesty ‒ and all the rest of it.
~Sam Shepard

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
~James Lane Allen

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.
~Eric Hoffer

You can’t escape who you fundamentally are.
~Rick Owens

As Mark Weiner puts it, whether you gain 50 pounds or lose 50 pounds, whether you have a sex change operation for that matter, that it doesn’t matter, that there is some part of ourselves that we cannot escape.
~Todd Solondz

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
~Paul Eldridge

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There was more courage in bearing trouble than in escaping from it; the brave and the energetic cling to hope, even in spite of fortune; the cowardly and the indolent are hurried by their fears.
~Plotius Firmus

Modern man is a hard driven nomad without any stability, not (as the Bible has it) a wanderer or a pilgrim, but a refugee‒an escapist. Instead of meditation and reflection there is only speed, fear and “distraction.”
~Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
~Jiddu Krishnamurti

I don’t run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.
~Nadia Comaneci

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Inquiry appears to be a process of thinking, but actually it’s a way to undo thinking. Thoughts lose their power over us when we realize that they simply appear in the mind. They’re not personal.
~Byron Katie

The agnostic, the skeptic, is neurotic, but this does not imply a false philosophy; it implies the discovery of facts to which he does not know how to adapt himself. The intellectual who tries to escape from neurosis by escaping from the facts is merely acting on the principle that “where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise.”
~Alan Watts

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We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period’s official optimism nor, as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was man’s fate.
~Joan Didion

Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don’t mean escaping into dreams or into the irrational. I mean that I have to change my approach, look at the world from a different perspective, with a different logic and with fresh methods of cognition and verification.
~Italo Calvino

Do not allow yourself to suppress your thoughts. Instead, let the thoughts come before you and become a sort of observer. Start observing your own mind. Do not try to escape; do not be afraid of your thinking.
~Rama Swami

When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.
~Comte de Lautreamont

Good ideas escape their capture like a rabbit down a hole. A passing thought interrupts, disconnects them, insights get lost to the next moment’s need. You have things to teach yourself that you will never learn until you sit down to write.
~author unknown

Every man builds his world in his own image; he has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. If he abdicates his power, he abdicates the status of man, and the grinding chaos of the irrational is what he achieves as his sphere of existence—by his own choice.
~Ayn Rand

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Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.
~Clive Bell

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I grew up in Chillum Heights in the Washington, D.C. area., and it was never a garden spot. When guys go, ‘Hey, when I grew up, my neighborhood was tough, and it was this and that’… the reality is that it was just a terribly sad place. And thank God, I was able to escape it.
~Jonathan Banks

SoHo was called Hell’s Hundred Acres because it was full of sweatshops ‒ without fire escapes. Completely not up to code. Every once in a while, these buildings would burn and 26 Puerto Ricans would be killed.
~Carl Andre

I grew up knowing about [Ted] Bundy because I grew up in Aspen and that is one of the places he kept escaping from. I remember one of the times he had escaped the Pitkin County Jail, my stepfather sat outside with a shotgun because everyone knew Bundy had escaped and so everybody was on alert.
~Boti Bliss

If I wasn’t from Philly, I couldn’t promise you that I would have the same drive and the same ambition because, as a little kid, I always saw myself as making it out, and I would escape with television.
~Nafessa Williams

Port Talbot is a steel town, where everything is covered with gray iron ore dust. Even the beach is completely littered with dust, it’s just black. The sun was setting, and it was quite beautiful. The contrast was extraordinary, I had this image of a guy sitting there on this dingy beach with a portable radio, tuning in these strange Latin escapist songs like ‘Brazil.’ The music transported him somehow and made his world less gray.
~Terry Gilliam

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In my teens I was interested in photography. Then I decided that I should learn something about the world of commerce. And I came to America at age 17 to escape Europe. I went to NYU ‒ nothing better than being 17 years old and coming to New York.
~Nicolas Berggruen

I’m one with New York, and New York is one with me. I grew up there; there’s no escaping it. We’re like Siamese twins, if you separate us, I’ll die.
~Adrian Grenier

Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air pressure, a different psychic weight: the bright lights and shuttered shops, the housing projects and luxury hotels, the fire escapes and city parks.
~Teju Cole

I think growing up in New York, you see so much at such a young age, there’s no bubble to escape into.
~Zoe Lister-Jones

Fire Island Pines is my perfect escape from N.Y.C. on weekends. Beautiful beaches, great restaurants, and fun people ‒ exactly what I need after a crazy New York week.
~Nick Wooster

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Africa is mystic; it is wild; it is a sweltering inferno; it is a photographer’s paradise, a hunter’s Valhalla, an escapist’s Utopia. It is what you will, and it withstands all interpretations. It is the last vestige of a dead world or the cradle of a shiny new one. To a lot of people, as to myself, it is just ‘home’. It is all these things but one thing ‒ it is never dull.
~Beryl Markham

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For me, St. Petersburg is the city that I can never escape because it has this special energy, even a dark energy. It keeps pulling me back.
~Anna Netrebko

As far as Athens is concerned, I also think about all those people who are trying to escape tax all the time. All these people in Greece who are trying to escape tax.
~Christine Lagarde

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When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.
~Tom Ford

The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in ‒ there’s a reason a small town is called a small town: It’s because not many people want to live there.
~Billie Joe Armstrong

I wanted to escape Small Town U.S.A. To dismiss the boundaries, to explore. My life experience came from watching movies, TV, and reading books and magazines. When your culture comes from watching TV everyday, you’re bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities.
~Trent Reznor

Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens to people who move from Perl to Ruby.
~Larry Wall

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I can’t say I’m thankful about being German because I sometimes experience it as a huge burden. But it is an integral part of me and I wouldn’t want to escape it. I have accepted it.
~Bernhard Schlink

I can’t escape being born in Pike County, Kentucky, grandson of a miner, Luther Tibbs, and his wife, Earlene, and traveling as a child up and down Route 23 between Kentucky and Columbus, Ohio, where I was raised, experiencing life via working-class people. Nor do I want to escape.
~Dwight Yoakam

I love New York, and I’m drawn to a certain intensity of life, but I’ve just never felt like I want to escape from the Midwest. A writer lives a great deal in his own head, and so one intuitively finds places where your head is more clear. New York for me is one of those places.
~Garrison Keillor

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Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can’t escape it.
~Shah Rukh Khan

Tsunamis are always big news around Hilo, grew up always getting ready to escape a tsunami.
~B J Penn

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Nothing escapes the vigilance of the New South Wales police; their reputation is known the world over.
~Joshua Slocum

Three months at Oxford persuaded me that it was not my home. I’m not English and I never will be. The life I have lived is one of partial displacement. I came to England as a means of escape, and it was a failure.
~Stuart Hall

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I’m sure that growing up in the Midwest played a role in my chronic escapism. In fact, before I lived in France, I lived in Japan, England, and Bulgaria. I was determined to experience other places and cultures, particularly because I had the perception that I’d been cut off from these experiences as a child.
~Danielle Trussoni (journalist)

Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past
Into different lives, or into any future;
You are not the same people who left that station
Or who will arrive at any terminus,
While the narrowing rails slide together behind you.
~T S Eliot

Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads.
~Andre Breton

That idea of escapism… these words could sum up my life.
~Ella Maillart (adventurer, travel writer)

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Travel is best when it’s as unplanned as possible so that you get that real sense of adventure. The film ‘Thelma and Louise‘ really encapsulates that ‒ their travels are unplanned and spontaneous and therefore full of excitement, escapism and optimism.
~Douglas Booth

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One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one’s mind.
~Ella Maillart

There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one’s problems and sorrows with one.
~Elizabeth Aston

Escapism isn’t good or bad in itself. What is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to.
~Terry Pratchett

It is always fair sailing, when you escape evil.
~Sophocles

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To escape and sit quietly on the beach ‒ that’s my idea of paradise.
~Emilia Wickstead

My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.
~Carl Hiaasen

Morning tide makes a great companion when you don’t want to be around people. It soothes and comforts and doesn’t ask for anything. But the sun does. The higher it gets, the more I am reminded that nothing stops time. There is no escaping it.
~Anna Banks

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@Writers Platform:

I’m not an escapist, but the value of language is that it can create places that did not exist before. And so language for me doesn’t reflect the world, it extends the world, so that it becomes larger and more fantastic and less mired in this school shooting bullshit. It actually builds a future ‒ that’s how evolution occurs.
~Blake Butler

The cry that ‘fantasy is escapist’ compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are ‘escapist’ compared with biography, and to both cries one should make the same answer: that freedom to invent outweighs loyalty to mere happenstance, the accidents of history; and good readers should know how to filter a general applicability from a particular story.
~Tom Shippey

I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.
~Lawrence Durrell

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I would like to mention some preparations that were required of me. The first preparation is to take a right attitude toward life. This means, stop being an escapist! Stop being a surface liver who stays right in the froth of the surface. There are millions of these people, and they never find anything really worthwhile. Be willing to face life squarely and get down beneath the surface of life where the verities and realities are to be found. That’s what we are doing here now.
~Peace Pilgrim

All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don’t want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don’t think art should be escapist. That’s a waste of time.
~Edward Albee

Until I read Anne Frank’s diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous.
~Alexandra Fuller

I just wanted to make a record that wasn’t escapism. Like, I didn’t want to write another record that was devoid of meaningful content.
~Dan Deacon

You can’t just have stuff that is free and escapist, you have to have stuff that is confrontational as well. You need stuff that is mystical but you need the realism too.
~Irvine Welsh

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Novels aren’t just happy escapes; they are slivers of people’s souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp. Reading the right one at the right time can make all the difference.
~Brandon Sanderson

Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.
~Alberto Manguel

For me books have always been an incredibly solid part of my life, both as escapism and simply as resource.
~Jackie French

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Everything we do is escapism, because we’ll all be dead and everything we do is completely meaningless. Why brush your teeth? Why not be in the park with the bums passing a short dog? Why pay taxes, why get educated? Of course literature is an escape. You have to fill the hours.
~T C Boyle

People talk– they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.
~Piers Anthony

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality ‒ the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
~Walter Bagehot

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.
~Shirley Jackson

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Escapism for me can come in the form of someone else’s reality.
~Lena Dunham

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!
~J R R Tolkien

I don’t see why escapist literature shouldn’t also be a work of art.
~P D James

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Reader’s Bill of Rights 1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finish 4. The right to reread 5. The right to read anything 6. The right to escapism 7. The right to read anywhere 8. The right to browse 9. The right to read out loud 10. The right to not defend your tastes
~Daniel Pennac

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The very word ‘fiction’ implies another world, literally a different place, whereas no one claims that a dedicated sportsman is escaping his life, or a chef or a nurse. But the poor writer ‒ the sci-fi one especially ‒ is seen as running away. Bollocks.
~Russell T Davies

There’s no real objection to escapism, in the right places… We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very far from escapism, in fact you might say that science fiction is escape into reality… It’s a fiction which does concern itself with real issues: the origin of man; our future. In fact I can’t think of any form of literature which is more concerned with real issues, reality.
~Arthur C Clarke

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All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation‒it is the Self-escaping into the open.
~E B White

A writer’s style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias…it is the Self escaping into the open.
~E B White

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Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
~William Hazlitt

Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education.
~Hugh MacDiarmid

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It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
~Alice Hoffman

Writing is a deeply immersive experience. When the words are flying, the house could be burgled and I wouldn’t notice. I have a low boredom threshold and I like intensity – writing is a way of escaping the quotidian.
~Monica Ali

I don’t really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don’t want to get into someone else’s language when I’m working.
~Alice Hoffman

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I’ll tell you why I like writing: it’s just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it’s also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It’s pretty old-fashioned, but it’s fun.
~Barry Hannah

I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not… well, it seemed not real, but very detailed and meticulous, bizarre.
~Richard Foreman (playwright)

Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.
~Ashwin Sanghi

If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It’s a form of escape.
~M Night Shyamalan

I’m interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We’re all victims and few of us are truly free.
~David Lloyd

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Judging from the letters I’ve received from obviously feeble-minded persons who do so wish I would write another These Old Shades [1926], it ought to sell like hot cakes. I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense, but it’s questionably good escapist literature and I think I should rather like it if I were sitting in an air-raid shelter, or recovering from flu.
~Georgette Heyer

I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.
~Tanith Lee

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.
~Walter Mosley

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I gave up writing children’s books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from ‘Punch‘: as I have always wanted to escape. In vain.
~A A Milne

I write to escape; to escape poverty.
~Edgar Rice Burroughs

Editorial sigh escapes.
~Ed Note

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One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don’t, the story is spoiled.
~Rex Stout

The ‘punch’ of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic law ‒ an imaginative escape from palling reality ‒ hence, phenomena rather than persons are the logical ‘heroes.’
~H P Lovecraft

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Neither the writer nor the reader can save the world by themselves. Or escape it entirely.
~Amitava Kumar

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Growing up, books were my lifeline, and I owe a debt to those writers that can never be repaid. They saved my sanity and gave me a world I could escape to. If I can pay that forward to another person, that’s all I ask.
~Sherrilyn Kenyon

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I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don’t understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in.
~Neil Gaiman

I am there to entertain. I call my work high escape fiction; it’s high, it’s good ‒ but it’s escape, and I have no delusions about that. I have no ambition to be a serious writer, whatever that means.
~Alan Furst

Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and being just distant enough to be able to laugh at things that are normally painful… I would call fantasy the most serious, and the most useful, branch of writing there is. And this is why I don’t, and never would, write Real Books.
~Diana Wynne Jones

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What was a slap for ten pages of escapism, ten pages far from everything that made him unhappy, ten pages of real life instead of the monotony that other people called the real world?
~Cornelia Funke

Whether it’s a kid in high school who doesn’t have any friends and finds friends in my characters, or a guy in Afghanistan, who’s trying to forget what he did that day, and trying not to think about what he’s gotta do tomorrow… I give them a little bit of an escape.
~R A Salvatore

For me, reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.
~Geri Halliwell

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While books provided me with some escape from the mental and physical horrors of my early life, they were unreliable. Many times the protagonists suffered terribly and then died at the end.
~Sherrilyn Kenyon

Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn’t be escapism.
~Maggie Stiefvater

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It’s to a writer’s advantage to contain within himself elements of each sex, or any sex. It’s to his advantage because it makes him able to write from the female point of view as well as the male. In some cases, of course, you will find some homosexual writers who can only write from a f – – -‘s point of view. But I don’t regard myself as a f – – -! Some people may. Also audiences wanted escapism. They don’t like too much protest or criticism of their way of life.
~Tennessee Williams

When I write a book, I put everything I have into it; so the more I have, the more the books become. Some people get freaked out by them: mostly the people who believe, mistakenly, that fantasy is about escaping reality.
~Matthew Woodring Stover

Also, most people read fiction as an escape ‒ and I wonder whether my books aren’t a bit too grounded in reality to reach the widest possible audience.
~Alex Berenson

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Escapism for me can come in the form of someone else’s reality.
~Lena Dunham

I don’t see why escapist literature shouldn’t also be a work of art.
~P D James

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Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I pick up a novel.
~David Macaulay

In this job, there are some simple pleasures that really help you cope. One is books, I mean, books are a great escape. Books are a way to get your mind on something else.
~George W Bush

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Prewritten Prompt: escape

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Freethinkers reject faith as a valid tool of knowledge. Faith is the opposite of reason because reason imposes very strict limits on what can be true, and faith has no limits at all. A Great Escape into faith is no retreat to safety. It is nothing less than surrender.
~Dan Barker

Hope is one of the Theological virtues. This means that a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some modern people think) a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do. It does not mean that we are to leave the present world as it is. If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next.
~C S Lewis

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An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.
~Madalyn Murray O’Hair

Meditation is nothing but coming to terms with your inner emptiness: recognizing it, not escaping; living through it, not escaping; being through it, not escaping. Then suddenly the emptiness becomes the fullness of life.
~Rajneesh

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.
~Frederick William Robertson

No matter how much we try to run away from this thirst for the answer to life, for the meaning of life, the intensity only gets stronger and stronger. We cannot escape these spiritual hungers.
~Ravi Zacharias

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The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.
~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We are at home here. Alienation is unnecessary. Contact with reality at a deep level is part of the Christian’s life. He enters into reality, rather than escaping from it. The flight from reality is a mark of Eastern and classical mysticism, not of Christianity.
~Hans Rookmaaker

Vipassana [India] is the art of living. Not the art of escaping.
~S N Goenka

There’s this idea that when you say you’re Muslim, that you’re either all in or you’re trying to escape it. I love the idea of gradations and levels, just like everybody else has.
~Ramy Youssef

That’s a very Japanese idea ‒ that children are an extension of their parents. And that when you’re reborn, your new form reflects the sins of your previous life ‒ you can’t escape.
~Takashi Miike

It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.
~Hesiod

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Mysticism has often been misunderstood as the attempt to escape this simple, phenomenal world to a more pure existence in heaven beyond. This is not mysticism, but Gnosticism. Biblical mysticism is the attempt to exit ‘this world’ to an alternative reality that pervades the old order. Its goal is to jettison the mind-set that says ‘greed is good,’ selfishness is normal,’ and ‘killing is necessary.’ Mysticism in biblical terms is not escapism, as so many have caricatured it, but a fight for ethics and social change.
~Walter Wink

To reverence the impersonal creation instead of the personal God who created us is a perversion designed for escaping moral accountability to the Creator.
~Dave Hunt

The nature of Christ’s salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Saviour from Hell rather than a Saviour from sin. And that is why so many are fatally deceived, for there are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake of fire who have no desire to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness.
~Arthur W Pink

The cross stands as a mystery because it is foreign to everything we exalt‒ self over principle, power over meekness, the quick fix over the long haul, cover-up over confession, escapism over confrontation, conform over sacrifice, feeling over commitment, legality over justice, the body over the spirit, anger over forgiveness, man over God.
~Ravi Zacharias

Many spiritual people are involved in a radical denial of what is happening. They want to transcend it, get rid of it, get out of it, get away from it. There’s nothing wrong with that feeling, but the approach doesn’t work because it’s escapism in spiritual clothing. It’s wearing spiritual clothing and spiritual concepts, but it is really no different than a drunk in the gutter who doesn’t want to feel the pain anymore. When you abide and accept everything completely and fully, you automatically go beyond.
~Adyashanti

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Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn’t agree with ‒ the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there.
~Hugh Hefner

Men who scorn the idea of submission to the divine Will and are outraged by the notion of a God who requires submission are among the first to demand total submission to the process in which we are involved and seem to attach a kind of moral imperative to willing participation in it. Any other attitude, so they say, is reactionary or escapist or anti-social. Perhaps, after all, they have found a divinity to worship; and, if they have, the only charitable comment must be: God help them!
~Charles le Gai Eaton

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All the seven deadly sins are man’s true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you’re made to feel guilty for being human, then you’re going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can’t escape from.
~Marilyn Manson

The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.
~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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I am the subject of depression so fearful that I hope none of you ever get to such extremes of wretchedness as I go to. But I always get back again by this‒I know that I trust Christ. I have no reliance but in Him, and if He falls, I shall fall with Him. But if He does not, I shall not. Because He lives, I shall live also, and I spring to my legs again and fight with my depressions of spirit and get the victory through it. And so may you do, and so you must, for there is no other way of escaping from it.
~Charles Spurgeon

Reckon then that to acquire soul-winning power, you will have to go through mental torment and soul distress. You must go into the fire if you are going to pull others out of it, and you will have to dive into the floods if you are going to draw others out of the water. You cannot work a fire escape without feeling the scorch of the conflagration, nor man a lifeboat without being covered with the waves.
~Charles Spurgeon

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I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination ‒ the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.
~Charles Spurgeon

My granny was very concerned that we weren’t baptised ‒ Mum had been desperate to escape her own Catholic upbringing. But Granny thought we were blighted. Whenever we turned up at her house, she would flick holy water ‒ from the font she kept by the door ‒ over us, in the hope that it would save us from damnation.
~Natascha McElhone

God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us ‒ as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.
~John Calvin

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One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year.
~Andrew Greeley

God knows Himself and every created thing perfectly. Not a blade of grass or the tiniest insect escapes His eye.
~Mother Angelica

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Man can certainly flee from God… but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God
~Karl Barth

Rajneeshism is creating a Noah’s Ark of consciousness, remaining centered exactly in the middle of the cyclone. You can only escape within, and that’s what I teach. I do not teach worship of God or any other ritual but only a scientific way of coming to your innermost core.
~Rajneesh

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My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix, as we’ve talked about. It has very little to do with what people think success is. I actually feel successful right now, even though I don’t have an album out, or a video or a song on the radio, because I’m trying to be obedient to His will.
~Lauryn Hill

The breath of peace was fanning her glorious brow, her head was bowed a very little forward, and a tress, escaping from its bonds, fell by the side of her pure white temple, and close to her just opened lips; it hung there motionless! no breath disturbed its repose! She slept as an angel might sleep, having accomplished the mission of her God.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne

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I went whenever I could, and always my eyes lifted to the hills. I was to find a spiritual and physical satisfaction in climbing mountains and a tranquil mind upon reaching their summits, as though I had escaped from the disappointments and unkindness of life and emerged above them into a new world, a better world.
~Alfred Wainwright

A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world.
~Benton MacKaye

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A flower is a daisy chain, a graduation, a valentine; a flower is New Year’s Eve and an orchid in your hair; a flower is a single geranium blooming in a tin can on a murky city fire-escape; an acre of roses at the Botanical Gardens; and the first gold crocus of spring! … a flower is a birth, a wedding, a leaving of this life.
~Jean Hersey

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
~Langston Hughes

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Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth’s surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose them. There is no possibility of escaping from this conclusion.
~Charles Lyell

Keep an eye on the weather, which is changing faster than predicted, and on the new diseases escaping or being made, even as we speak. It’s a race between new tech and biosphere bankruptcy, I’d say.
~Margaret Atwood

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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
~Albert Schweitzer

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
~Henry David Thoreau

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I always see gardening as escape, as peace really. If you are angry or troubled, nothing provides the same solace as nurturing the soil.
~Monty Don

Because we can’t escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets and Boston ferns, and scent everything that touches our lives.
~Diane Ackerman

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If you think about evolution, sleep, at some time, was a dangerous undertaking. You lie down in your cave or shelter, and along comes a predator and has you for dinner. Many creatures do not sleep or sleep while standing so they can escape from dangerous situations.
~Bernie Siegel

A horse is the projection of peoples’ dreams about themselves ‒ strong, powerful, beautiful ‒ and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.
~Pam Brown

“Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!” he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say ‘out of the frying-pan into the fire’ in the same sort of uncomfortable situations.
~J R R Tolkien

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We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
~Charles Baudelaire

The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
~Wendell Berry

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
~Abraham Lincoln

The past can be escaped only by embracing something better.
~Nicholas Sparks

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
~Charles Baudelaire

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I think that physics is about escaping the prison of the received thoughts and searching for novel ways of thinking the world, about trying to clear a bit the misty lake of insubstantial dreams, which reflect reality like the lake reflects the mountains.
~Carlo Rovelli

The best ideas aren’t hidden in shadowy recesses. They’re right in front of us, hidden in plain sight. Innovation seldom depends on discovering obscure or subtle elements but in seeing the obvious with fresh eyes. This is easier said than done because nothing is as hard to see as what’s right before our eyes. We overlook what we take for granted. Billions of tea drinkers observed the force of steam escaping from water boiling in a kettle before James Watt realized that this vapor could be converted into energy.
~Richard Farson

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Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces.
~Steven Spielberg

Individuals can refuse to use a given technology, but unless they live in total isolation will have to engage with people whose psyches have been shaped by a multitude of technologies. And there is no escaping the pervasive ecological effects.
~Stephanie Mills

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In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users’ freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn’t.
~Richard Stallman (GNU Project)

The popularity of fantasy surpassing science fiction and the popularity of apocalyptic fiction, particularly for young adults, may indicate a desire to escape a more difficult and confusing reality, even in astrophysics and particle physics.
~James Gunn

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Our eyes only see the big dimensions, but beyond those there are others that escape detection because they are so small.
~Brian Greene (physicist)

The edge of a black hole, the event horizon, is a boundary that marks the point of no return. Once an object crosses the event horizon, it cannot escape and will be ripped to pieces, atom by atom.
~Kevin McCarthy

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I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
~Henri Bergson

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
~John Maynard Keynes

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The fact that I was fortunate enough to escape contagion, in spite of frequent, sometimes daily contacts with the disease [typhus], was because I soon guessed how it spread [lice].
~Charles Jules Henry Nicole (Nobel)

There is no escaping the fact that, even in a great career, sometimes the best advances happen through luck, chance and accident.
~Edmond H Fischer (Nobel)

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
~Henri Bergson

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
~John Maynard Keynes

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Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.
~Frederick Soddy

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There are so many benefits to be derived from space exploration and exploitation; why not take what seems to me the only chance of escaping what is otherwise the sure destruction of all that humanity has struggled to achieve for 50,000 years?
~Isaac Asimov

In the long term, it is desirable that the human race, faced with the prospect of extinction on Earth, should prepare an escape route for itself to another inhabitable planet.
~Paul Johnson

The neurogenetic meaning of the cultural revolution is now clear. Neurochemicals are designed to be pursuitist, not escapist. They open the nervous system to the possibilities of future post-terrestrial evolution.
~Timothy Leary

There is no escaping from ourselves. The human dilemma is as it has always been, and we solve nothing fundamental by cloaking ourselves in technological glory.
~Neil Postman

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The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn’t put a crew escape system in it.
~Robert Crippen

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§ The Exercise:

5s ‘n 7s

escape anonymity
escape, anonymity
two faces, 2 masks for fame
to escape or shape the game
poles apart proximity
world of art complicity
neither alike, both the same

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lost to wanderlust again
enter marriage sight unseen
tame the traveled wildcat there
then escape, to end alone
savaged salvage but safe, where
bewitched by beauty, caught-stunned
fool-proof plans undone, outgunned

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to escape expectations
nobody wants damaged goods
simplistic, realistic
slick trick of the autistic
would- could- should-have… but not yet

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next newest very-big thing
your one chance in a lifetime
decision to be final
at terminus and fatal
no escape: your choice is when

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escape from nowhere
arrive at now here
currently present
presently on leave
taking leave-of-mind
getting left behind
hardly worth the trip

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fate as the villain
to escape but not arrive
leaving love behind

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exiled, evicted
victim of self-circumstance
skin-of-teeth escape

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
~Samuel Johnson

The survival instinct within us is a powerful tool. It enables us to endure unbearable things as long as we escape long enough to express that where we are is not where we are going.
~T D Jakes

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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
~Salman Rushdie

A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
~Kin Hubbard

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Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the furthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness: a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say ‘no.’ But saying ‘yes’ begins things. Saying ‘yes’ is how things grow.
~Stephen Colbert

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.
~Claude Bernard

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No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.
~Ernest Renan

It doesn’t escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is thanks to so much pain in someone else’s.
~Lupita Nyong’o

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I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacation with better care than they do their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change
~Jim Rohn

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
~Seth Godin

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Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves.
~Mark Haddon

Half the joy of life is in little things taken on the run… but let us keep our hearts young and our eyes open that nothing worth our while shall escape us.
~Victor Cherbuliez

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Escape brings not the victory and the crown.
~Sri Aurobindo

Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.
~Michael Chabon

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Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles.
~E T A Hoffmann

Making the best of things is… a damn poor way of dealing with them. My whole life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.
~Rose Wilder Lane

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We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid.
~Larry Niven

The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
~Arthur Helps

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Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
~C S Lewis

I believe that evolution is a true account of nature, but I think we should try to escape it or transcend it in our society.
~Peter Thiel

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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
~Roland Barthes

If you escape from people too often, you wind up escaping from yourself.
~Marvin Gaye

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That’s what’s great about show business. It’s escapism. You pay your five bucks to get in and sit there and you’re in another world. Forget about the problems in the world. It’s wonderful.
~Michael Jackson

Escapism‒ that’s what I like. I’m not so crazy about the reality of everything.
~Michael Jackson

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How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny?
~Ferdowsi

There’s no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.
~Chuck Palahniuk

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“Getting away from it all,” many people want that, and of course ultimately the only way to get away from it all is to go within, now.
~Eckhart Tolle

I am not saying that you should renounce things, that you should escape from your home and renounce the marketplace. No, don’t misunderstand my statement. What is, is good. Nothing will happen either by dropping things and escaping from them or by clinging to them. Remain where you are, but begin the search within. Much outer searching has already been done, now go within.
~Rajneesh

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Never fear a job, always respect it, and always leave yourself a hind door to escape. May your hind door always be open.
~Red Adair

Every person should have their escape route planned. I think everyone has an apocalypse fantasy, what would I do in the event of the end of the world, and we just basically ‒ me and Nick ‒ said what would we do, where would we head?
~Simon Pegg

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Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes.
~Keith Henson

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
~Alice James

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I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which ‘Escape’ is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home?
~J R R Tolkien

I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, ‘What class of men would you expect to be most preoccupied with, and hostile to, the idea of escape?’ and gave the obvious answer: jailers… The only people who hate escapism are jailers.
~C S Lewis

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Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.
~Franz Kafka

Basically, in the fight-or-flight response, the objective is to get away from the source of threat. All of our muscles prepare for this escape by increasing their tension level, our heart rate and respiration increase, and our whole basic metabolic system is flooded with adrenaline.
~Peter A Levine

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When gratitude has become a matter of reasoning there are many ways of escaping from its bonds.
~George Eliot

Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.
~Ninon de Lenclos

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It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
~George Borrow

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
~T S Eliot

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We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to chains.
~Anne Sullivan Macy

If you should escape the censure of others, hope not to escape your own.
~Henry Home

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A golf course is for golf. A tennis court is for tennis. A prison camp is for escaping.
~Pierre Fresnay

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.
~Fyodor Dostoevsky

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You can’t escape this feeling of disintegration. The world is fragile. But you also can’t let it ruin your life.
~Michael Shannon

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.
~Anais Nin

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The more we wait, the more everything and everyone looks like a grain of sand escaping between our fingers before vanishing into the wind.
~Fábio Moon

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
~Niccolò Machiavelli

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At home, when the heating pipes made noises, I imagined a tiny person was in there skipping with a rope. The fantasy world of tiny things became my escape.
~Willard Wigan (sculptor)

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.
~Albert Camus

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No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.
~William Kingdon Clifford

Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.
~Alfred A Montapert

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My mouth is a fire escape. The words coming out don’t care that they are naked. There is something burning in there.
~Andrea Gibson

This howling mouth, this head which rolls back and tries to escape.
~Frederick Leboyer

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Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.
~Frank Moore Colby

Maybe you don’t like your job, maybe you didn’t get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there’s no escape, there’s no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.
~Ani DiFranco

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No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
~J Robert Oppenheimer

The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.
~John Ciardi

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The thing you do is escape from them by immersing myself in the character you’re playing.
~Pia Zadora

I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.
~Ransom Riggs

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Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.
~Eric Hoffer

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
~Hannah Arendt

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Words do cut, and they do hurt. It was one thing growing up where you were bullied, but you’d just come home. Now you can’t really escape it. It’s to a point where you turn off that phone, you live your life, and you try not to let the words of others offend or stop you from being you and living your life.
~Karen Civil

To escape criticism ‒ do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
~Elbert Hubbard

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You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live
~Ayn Rand

Do you want to live life, or do you want to escape life?
~Macklemore

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