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Escapism  Quotes
Hence the uneasiness which they arouse in those who, for whatever reason, wish to keep us wholly imprisoned in the immediate conflict. That perhaps is why people are so ready with the charge of “escape.”...

—C.S. Lewis

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EscapismFantasyJailers
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I’m sorry! I really am! I wanted to get out of this place! I want to live! I want to get away from here and never see it again! I hate everything about it!””You will...

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BaggageEscapismSadness
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[All the ancient wisdom] tells us that work is necessary to us, as much a part of our condition as mortality; that good work is our salvation and our joy; that shoddy or dishonest or...

—Wendell Berry

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Don’t judge me for escaping the stresses and cruelty of the world differently than you do.

—Dan Pearce

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Escaping-From-RealityEscapismLife-Difficulty
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Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really droppped anchor. It was a transient place. People drawn by the dream, people running from the nightmare. Twelve million...

—Michael Connelly

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Leaving the rat race is easy. All you have to do is quit your job, sell your house, and go and live in a tent in the middle of nowhere. It’s staying out of the...

—Fennel Hudson

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I’ll tell you what I want. Magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misinterpret things to them. I don’t tell the truth. I tell what ought to be truth. And...

—Tennessee Williams

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There’s no real objection to escapism, in the right places… We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very far from escapism, in fact you might say that science fiction is escape...

—Arthur C. Clarke

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The supposed reality of misfiring synapses, chemical imbalances, frontal lobe anomalies and the like – did not sway her desire for escape into an alternate universe – where she could discover fascinating things about her...

—Kelly Proudfoot

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We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to escape from. We have debased the products of work and have been,...

—Wendell Berry

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Because we were stranded together and because I stuttered, we read. there is no refuge so private, no asylum more sane. There is no facility of voices captured elsewhere so entire and so marvellous. My...

—Gail Jones

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Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors–we hope–of your life come from reading fiction.

—Orson Scott

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Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They’re fairy tales for grown-ups.

—Gena Showalter

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To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the...

—Umberto Eco

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There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more...

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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The beam of light flashed across her own face and she thought, Yes, me, Khady Demba, still happy to utter her name silently and to sense its apt harmony with the precise, satisfying image she...

—Marie NDiaye

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People talk– they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.

—Piers Anthony

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CreativityEscapismImagination
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While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none the less a persistent and permanent type of expression, as old as literature itself. There will always...

—H.P. Lovecraft

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…When people lose their way and lack a real purpose for living they often fall back on certain forms of escapism as a form of self-soothing…

—John Geddes

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I can breathe easier now that the appointments are behind me.I missed them all, through deliberate negligence,Having waited for the urge to go, which I knew wouldn’t come.I’m free, and against organized, clothed society.I’m naked...

—Fernando Pessoa

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Jimi Hendrix’s music was escapism.

—Perry Farrell

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To hide away from the world whose loveless heart has gone astrayand its inhabitants what could be a safer place than my imagination?

—Anna Jae

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Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?

—Laura Miller

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Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water reflected the landscape. And yet … and yet …Inside this little world they...

—Terry Pratchett

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We left behind the other kids; their path-working, drinking, and being grown up- and rejected all that made them grumpy, uncreative and lifeless. We dumpstered, squatted, and shoplifted our lives back. Everything fell into place...

—CrimethInc.

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Everyone needs to escape sometimes, and retreating into somebody else’s fantasy isn’t nearly as satisfying as slipping into your own.

—Nenia Campbell

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[When under stress I thought of] the books I had read [and applied] them to myself. I [imagined I was] one of the characters [and soon found myself] in made-up circumstances which were most agreeable...

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Träume und Märchen waren ihr eigentlicher Lebensinhalt, dachte ich jetzt. Deshalb hat sie sich auch umgebracht, dachte ich, weil ein Mensch, der nur Träume und Märchen sich zu seinem Lebensinhalt gemacht hat, in dieser Welt...

—Thomas Bernhard

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Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.

—Alberto Manguel

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But I reckon that this realm of higher needs, of something more than just forgetting about everyday life, of mere recreation, this realm of needs has been clearly neglected by us.

—Krzysztof Kieślowski

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Escapism isn’t good or bad of itself. What is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to. I write from experience, since in my case I escaped to the idea...

—Terry Pratchett

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Tant que mes jambes me permettent de fuir, tant que mes bras me permettent de combattre, tant que l’expérience que j’ai du monde me permet de savoir ce que je peux craindre ou désirer, nulle...

—Henri Laborit

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Religion is a non-alcoholic man’s alcohol. Alcohol is a non-religious man’s religion.

—Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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I want to glide in a world of beauty,’ I said. ‘To be carried away into a world of luxurious things.

—James Lusarde

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Often the most tricky questions are the ones we secretly know the answers of.What are you running from?What are you waiting for?

—Sanhita Baruah

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escapist” literature. As I understand it, the adjective implies, a little condescendingly, that the life therein depicted cannot be identified with the real life which the critic knows so well in W.C.1: and may even...

—A.A. Milne

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There is no time to escape reality.

—Lange Weile

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Haven’t you noticed, too, on the part of nearly everyone you know, a growing rebellion against the present? And an increasing longing for the past? I have. Never before in all my long life have...

—Jack Finney

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Sleeping is the most common attempt to temporarily escape reality.

—Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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With even the slightest upset, detachment soon followed. I didn’t lose sleep over men, and I was too restless to be tied down. The grass didn’t even have time to grow around my feet before...

—M.B. Dallocchio

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Fiction is just that–fiction. Yes, it is serious business, but it should also be taken for face value. It’s entertainment. It’s escapism. It’s 365 pages of relaxation.

—Rachael Wade

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Music is escapism, it’s entertainment.

—Andy Taylor

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i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin.

—Khaled Hosseini

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but knowing about other people, other civilisations, other ways of living, other places – that’s your escape route, a magical journey. Once you know about these things, no matter what happens, your mind can create...

—Eliza Granville

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EscapismStories
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Sniffing glue is a homeless nonbeliever’s prayer.

—Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Moreover, people have become accustomed to reading to escape as opposed to reading to think.

—Leigh M.

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DystopiaEscapismReading
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This particular book felt familiar, like an old friend. The characters drew me into their world, and I blocked out mine for the rest of the afternoon.

—Rebecca Raisin

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BooksEscapismReading
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I sleep all day. Noises flit around the house- garbage truck in the alley, rain, tree rapping against the bedroom window. I sleep. I inhabit sleep firmly, willing it, wielding it, pushing away dreams, refusing,...

—Audrey Niffenegger

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EscapismSleep
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Evet Wilhelm, bazen bir an için kalkıp gitme, bağları koparma cesareti buluyorum kendimde, keşke nereye gideceğimi bilsem! heralde giderdim.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Dr. Manning said he’d thought at first it might be sleeping sickness, or even narcolepsy, whatever that was, but – no, Pete was healthy enough physically. Manoel growled that the boy was bone-lazy, spending his...

—Henry Kuttner

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