"I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible."

Escape, Books, Imagination, Reality

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"I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible."

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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."

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"Don't judge me for escaping the stresses and cruelty of the world differently than you do."

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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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"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

"Where else can we find happiness for a day other than from something that can offer momentary relief, something like the booze?"

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"No one loves us here, let's go to Mars."

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

Stephen King, American Author

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"I think escapism is really important."

Jordana Brewster, American Actress

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"Time to make herself scarce because, hell, she didn't want to pass that thunderhead on her way out."

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

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Explore more quotes by Neil Gaiman

"There was a table laid with jellies and trifles, with a party hat beside each place, and a birthday cake with seven candles on it in the center of the table. The cake had a book drawn on it, in icing. My mother, who had organized the party, told me that the lady at the bakery said that they had never put a book on a birthday cake before, and that mostly for boys it was footballs or spaceships. I was their first book."

Celebration

"Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time."

Mortality

"She said we all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable."

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"On the whole, stories don't write themselves."

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"It doth not hurt", whispered a faint voice, "She will take you life and all you are and all you care'st for, and she will leave you with nothing but mist and fog. She'll take your joy. And one day you'll wake and your heart and soul will have gone. A husk you'll be, a wisp you'll be, and a thing no more than a dream on waking, or a memory of something forgotten."

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"I watched him even then as he fell, his face undefeated, his eyes still proud."

Strength

"And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it."

Writing

"Before that no one thought of us as colored-foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored."

Identity

"It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out of, if one simply assumes that everything will, somehow or other, work out for the best." -Destruction."

Optimism

"I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good t."

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