All Quotes By Tag: Escape
“Delusions are hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding insane people living in a backwards world.”
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“When introverts go to church, we crave sanctuary in every sense of the word, as we flee from the disorienting distractions of twenty-first-century life. We desire to escape from superficial relationships, trivial communications and the constant noise that pervade our world, and find rest in the probing depths of God’s love.”
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“It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.”
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“To strive in life; we must either read or write a story.”
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“Escape is a process, not a pill.”
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“Vaguely conscious of that great suspense in which we live, we find our escape from its sterile, annihilating reality in many dreams, in religion, passion, art.”
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“Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty; they merely aspire to escape it.”
“Through these uncharted roads,I hope to escape my recollections;I am so tired of seeing signboards,and following the same directions.”
“If poetry is an escape into the woods,then music is the journey back home.”
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“I wanted freedom in the same way I wanted my next breath: an unspoken but constant desire.”
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“A sudden thought shocked him to the bone. I could leave Carthak when I’m a master. I’d never have to think about the games again.”
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“Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one who writes to escape the tediousness of that which awaits them outside? Whose flame will last longer?”
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“Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom.”
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“You’ve gone far away to a place with no horses and very little grass, and you’re studying how to write a story with a happy ending. If you can write that ending for yourself, maybe you can come back.”
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