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Escapism Quotes
"The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are"
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Tom Hanks
"Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else"
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Angelina Jolie
"Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?"
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J.R.R. Tolkien
"Multiplexes are not a bad thing they afford you the possibility of escaping the shittiness of life for a little while through a movie and I love that"
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Keanu Reeves
"Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else"
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Mark Twain
"One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price"
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Robert De Niro
"Literature is the magic carpet that flies us to the most wonderful places."
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Antonio Lobo Antunes
"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools"
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Ernest Hemingway
"The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy"
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Gustave Flaubert