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"To shut your eyes is to travel."
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"Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book."
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"Every unpleasant worldly experience in life exposes our sensitive nervous systems to painful phenomena. Despite all the beer commercial advertisement slogans urging us to live with gusto, life is unavoidably painful. Life is a battering ram that inflicts trauma upon human beings. People blunt the traumatic force of enduring a lifetime of pain, fearfulness, and unremitted anguish and boredom with religion, sex, booze, drugs, fantasy, and other indulgent acts and forms acts of escapism."
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"I've had enough of this. if you'll excuse me, i'm going to find a tavern where i can pay an underdressed woman to sit it my lap and look very pleased with me while i drink heavily."
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"The remotest place on Earth can sometimes be the most attractive place on Earth especially in times when our belief in humanity is lost!"
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"Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls."
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"I think escapism is really important."
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"If you don't know it's impossible, it's easier to do."
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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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"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."
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"Fights you on patriotic principles he robs you on business principles he enslaves you on imperial principles."
Politics

"The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me."
Emotion

"What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?"
Car

"What you are to do without me I cannot imagine."
Reflection

"The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older."
Change

"Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else."
Love

"Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family."
Family

"A woman who utters such depressing and disgusting sounds has no right to be anywhere - no right to live. Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift to articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton..."
Communication

"Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough."
Time

"The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react."
Act
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