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"Life can be impossibly tough. At times it seems like there is no escape from either the pressure or monotony of a world where you are corralled into being something or someone you are not. But there is an escape, to more peaceful and gentler places, and a happier state of mind."

Fennel Hudson, British Author

Escape, Pressure, Mental Health, Hope

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"Life can be impossibly tough. At times it seems like there is no escape from either the pressure or monotony of a world where you are corralled into being something or someone you are not. But there is an escape, to more peaceful and gentler places, and a happier state of mind."

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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

"To shut your eyes is to travel."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

Escape, Travel, Imagination, Truth

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"I'm likely to stay here, pen in hand, until dusk comes and my writing melts into the twilight."

"In with the new, out with the old.' That's what we're told. We have to change, adapt, compromise."

"Compromise is a choice. As is the defence of one's self."

"We are all Clapping Monkeys, but while some of us smile, others look around to see if anyone has noticed."

"Seek and see beauty in the watery world."

"Workdays are, I imagine, rather like learning to ice-skate Torvill and Dean's The Bolero. They start and end easily enough; it's the bit in the middle that causes the pain in the arse."

"Savour a slow-paced contented life."

"Find a part of yourself hidden in the twilight."

"Some will say that searching for your dreams is like looking for unicorns in an emerald forest."

"If I can't garden in it, then I won't wear it."

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