"Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book."

Escape, Books, Reading, Imagination

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"Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book."

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"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."

Geoffrey Wood, American Author

Escape, Family, Pain, Dream

"I just want to get away from me."

Kris Kidd, American Writer

Escape, Identity, Exhaustion, Reflection

"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

"I sell escapism."

Jimmy Buffett, American Musician

Escape, Escapism

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

Nikki Rowe, American Writer

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

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Escape, Internet, Weather, Comfort

"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

"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."

George Orwell, British Author

Escape, Word, Truth, Reality

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

Jack Henry Abbott, American Author

Escape, Eyes

"To shut your eyes is to travel."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

Escape, Travel, Imagination, Truth

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"This, explained the angel, is hell. The people do not love each other. They only want to feed themselves."

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"Women, oh, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words an' hold it up, sayin', Look what you attacked me with!"

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"But thought has no eyelids to close or ears to block..."

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"The potatoes were starch grenades. The canned carrots were revolting because that is their nature."

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"Power and moneyLike Pooh Bear and honeyStick fast."

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"Now I seen Mauna Kena from Honokaa b'fore, o'course, but a mountain you're planning on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty, nay."

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"Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just as it's true for people, it's also true on a national or cultural level."

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