Oscar Wilde  - Quotes

 Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women.



It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.
 

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Stephen King  - Quotes

 [Prison Break is] one of the craziest, most unpredictable roller-coaster rides on TV today. 

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John Fowles  - Quotes

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

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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe  - Quotes

 You are aware of only one unrest;

Oh, never learn to know the other!

Two souls, alas, are dwelling in my breast,

And one is striving to forsake its brother.

Unto the world in grossly loving zest,

With clinging tendrils, one adheres;

The other rises forcibly in quest

Of rarefied ancestral spheres.

If there be spirits in the air

That hold their sway between the earth and sky,

Descend out of the golden vapors there

And sweep me into iridescent life.

Oh, came a magic cloak into my hands

To carry me to distant lands,

I should not trade it for the choicest gown,

Nor for the cloak and garments of the crown.
 

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Roman Payne  - Quotes

 Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one who writes to escape the tediousness of that which awaits them outside? Whose flame will last longer? 

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William Goldman  - Quotes

 Nonsense. You're only saying that because no one ever has. 

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Kamila Shamsie  - Quotes

 For a second I was almost jealous of the clouds. Why was he looking to them for an escape when I was right here beside him? 

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Philip K. Dick  - Quotes

 Maybe I'll go where I can see stars, he said to himself as the car gained velocity and altitude; it headed away from San Francisco, toward the uninhabited desolation to the north. To the place where no living thing would go. Not unless it felt that the end had come. 

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William S Burroughs  - Quotes

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

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Alysha Speer  - Quotes

 I choose to write because it's perfect for me. It's an escape, a place I can go to hide. It's a friend, when I feel out casted from everyone else. It's a journal, when the only story I can tell is my own. It's a book, when I need to be somewhere else. It's control, when I feel so out of control. It's healing, when everything seems pretty messed up.

And it's fun, when life is just flat-out boring.
 

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D.H. Lawrence  - Quotes

 Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. 

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Margaret Atwood  - Quotes

 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. 

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David Mitchell  - Quotes

 Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw. 

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John Steinbeck  - Quotes

 The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a different facet of the same thing. But surely they were both intended to accomplish the same thing: the singing, the devotion, the poetry of the churches took a man out of his bleakness for a time, and so did the brothels. 

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