"I'm going out for a bottle of champagne. We're going to get bombed."

Escape, Humor, Today, Happiness, Regret

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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

Escape, Reality, Creation, Mind, Imagination

"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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"A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again."

Perseverance

"You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down."

Life

"Things conceived by minds and made by hands can never be quite the same, even if they try their best to be identical, because they're never the same from day to day or even moment to moment."

Creation

"For a woman a man will do many things that he'd turn his back on in an instant when alone; things he'd back away from, nine times out of ten, even when drunk adn with a bunch of his friends egging him on."

Behavior

"The inmates made jokes about the chair, the way people always make jokes about things that frighten them but can't be gotten away from."

Psychology

"This is how we bring about our own damnation, you know-by ignoring the voice that begs us to stop. To stop while there's still time."

Emotion

"Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do- to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street."

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"I just want to get away from me."

"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."

"I sell escapism."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"To shut your eyes is to travel."

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"A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again."

"You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down."

"Things conceived by minds and made by hands can never be quite the same, even if they try their best to be identical, because they're never the same from day to day or even moment to moment."

"For a woman a man will do many things that he'd turn his back on in an instant when alone; things he'd back away from, nine times out of ten, even when drunk adn with a bunch of his friends egging him on."

"The inmates made jokes about the chair, the way people always make jokes about things that frighten them but can't be gotten away from."

"This is how we bring about our own damnation, you know-by ignoring the voice that begs us to stop. To stop while there's still time."

"If God gives you something you can do, why in God's name wouldn't you do it?"

"Misery suffered did not justify misery to come."

"Being needed is a great thing. Maybe the great thing."

"Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do- to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street."