"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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"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

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"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."

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

Bob Dylan, American Musician

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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."

H. P. Lovecraft, American Novelist

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"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

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

Sarah Dessen, American Author

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"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

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"But when reality was hopeless, fantasy became more and more necessary."

Michael Grant, American Author

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"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

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"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love."

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"The truth is "#9dream" is a descendant of "Norwegian Wood". Both are ghost stories. "She" in "Norwegian Wood" curses you with loneliness. The "Two spirits dancing so strange" in "#9dream" bless you with harmony. But people prefer loneliness to harmony."

Emotions

"Rights are susceptible to subversion, as even granite is susceptible to erosion. My fifth Declaration posits how, in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders further violence until the only "rights, the only law, are whatever is willed by the most powerful."

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"Do," said Louisa finally, "whatever you can't not do."

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"You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human."

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