"Please leave me alone, let me go on to the stars."

Escape, Solitude, Stars, Freedom

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"Please leave me alone, let me go on to the stars."

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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."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

Escape, Secrecy, Fear, Conflict

"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

"I came to this city to escape."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

Escape, City, Isolation, Choice

"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

Escape, World, Soul, Dream

"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

"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."

Anais Nin, American Author

Escape, Reality, Life, Ecstasy

"Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Escape, Liquor, Pain, Life

"Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

Escape, Books, Reading, Imagination

"Annabeth looked at me. " We have to get out of here." " You think I want to be in the girls' restroom?" " I mean the ship, Percy! We have to get off the ship." " Smells bad," Tyson agreed. " And dogs eat all the eggs. Annabeth is right. We must leave the restroom and the ship."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Escape, Truth, Life, Power, Happiness

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

Michael Grant, American Author

Escape, Fantasy, Reality, Hope

Explore more quotes by Arthur C. Clarke

"The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion."

History, Religion, Morality, Mankind

"Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it."

Life, Day, Fact, Proof

"Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software."

Computer, Hardware, Reading, Software

"Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories."

Science, Fiction, Politicians

"I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power."

Power, Fantasy, President, Want

"We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?"

Creativity, Idea, Man, World, Youth

"I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her."

God,

"Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering."

Creativity, Idea, Universe

"New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!"

Creativity, Idea, Ideas, Worth

"The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible."

Limit, Limits