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Aldous Huxley

"...reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays...."

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"...reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays...."

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Amber Hurdle

"That's where thinking started, where thinking stopped, where all her prayers so long ago had dried up. She no longer prayed, nor even dreamed of changing her father. Her dreams now played variations on the theme of escape. And they were nothing more than that -just dreams, just play. She'd been alone at the end of her dreams so many times before and never had God helped her escape her father, because God couldn't, because she would never escape her need to love him."

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Amber Hurdle

"I just want to get away from me."

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"Outside, across the putrid moat and under the dark mute trees, I would often lie and dream for hours about what I read in the books; and would longingly picture myself amidst gay crowds in the sunny world beyond the endless forests."

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Amber Hurdle

"My reality isn't as gracious as it use to be, so I create things that are."

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"If you don't know it's impossible, it's easier to do."

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Amber Hurdle

"Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe. If you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become obvious yourself."

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Amber Hurdle

"I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life."

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"My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent."

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