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Escape Quotes

"Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life."
George Bernard Shaw
"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."
Fernando Pessoa
"Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying"
Langston Hughes
"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion"
T. S. Eliot
"Now go we in content, to liberty, and not to banishment."
William Shakespeare
"There is no way out of the imagined order. When we break down our prison walls and run towards freedom, we are in fact running into the more spacious exercise yard of a bigger prison"
Yuval Noah Harari
"Books were my pass to personal freedom."
Oprah Winfrey
"I hate reality but it's still the best place to get a good steak."
Woody Allen
"Art is an escape from reality."
Mario Vargas Llosa
"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home"
Twyla Tharp
"I will leave the world for a while and wander off in the woods"
Muriel Strode
"Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation"
Shakira
"The attempt to escape from pain is what creates more pain"
Gabor Mate
"Reading can take you places you have never been"
Dr. Seuss
"No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from."
George Eliot
"Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living"
Dr. Seuss
"The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time."
Haruki Murakami
"We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay"
Lynda Barry
"Think you're escaping and run into yourself. L"
James Joyce
"Think you're escaping and run into yourself longest way round is the shortest way home"
James Joyce
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