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

Escape, Reality, Holiday, Needs

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

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"People go to the movies instead of moving."

Tennessee Williams, American Dramatist

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

John Fowles, English Novelist

Escape, Poetry, Despair, Contradiction

"We got there without being spotted. I pulled her in, then shut the door, pressing my back to it and exhaling like an epileptic pilot who'd just landed a cargo plane full of dynamite."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

Escape, Secrecy, Fear, Conflict

"There must be some kind of way out of here,' said the joker to the thief..."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

Escape, Confusion, Dialogue, Irony

"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."

H. P. Lovecraft, American Novelist

Escape, Books, Imagination, Longing

"The only recourse for an escape artist from world affairs is to explore their inner sanctum where hopes, dreams, insecurities, and despair collide."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Escape, World, Soul, Dream

"If this was my forever, I didn't want to spend another second of it here."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

Escape, Freedom, Desire, Change

"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."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Escape, Alcohol, Life, Reality

"If I could only escape, if I could only escape... he murmured the words to himself a dozen times; then metaphorically shook himself for being so impractical, so romantic, so dutiless."

John Fowles, English Novelist

Escape, Longing, Freedom, Conflict

"To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking."

Alcaeus, Greek Poet

Escape, Drinking, Folly, Grief, Melancholy

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"A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor."

Death, Knowledge, Belief, Ambition

"Meanwhile, the self can stand in the way of the Not-Self, interfering with the free flow of spiritual grace, this maintaining the self in a state of blindness, and also with the flow of animal grace, which leads to the impairment of natural functions and, in the long run, of the slower processes called structure. For each individual human being, the main practical problems are these: How can I prevent my ego from eclipsing the inner light, synteresis, scintilla animae, and so perpetuating the state of unregenerate illusion and blindness? And these practical problems remain unchallenged, even if we abandon the notion of an entelechy or physiological intelligencer, of an atman or pneuma and think, instead, in terms [of] systems..."

Spiritual, Ego, Awareness, Self, Consciousness

"And the two essential and indispensable things are first of all intelligence in the right most sense of that word and goodwill or the old fashion word charity/love, I mean these two things have to go hand in hand. Intelligence and knowledge without charity or goodwill would perhaps be inhuman and goodwill or charity undirected by intelligence or knowledge would be either impotent or misguided, the two have to go together."

Philosophy, Intelligence, Charity, Love, Goodwill

"But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what's going on in his heart and mind."

Perspective, Heart, Mind, Man

"Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions."

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"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."

History, Men

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

Music, Silence

"It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'"

Life, Advice, End

"Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work."

Work, Feeling, Man, Sense

"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."

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