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• If you are having the right kind of spiritual fellowship, you will have power with God, and there is no escaping it!

  John G. Lake

  Spiritual, Fellowship, Kind

  John G. Lake (2009). “John G. Lake On Healing”, p.61, Whitaker House

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• Virtue is the fragrance of the flowers which the tree of life puts forth. Educated people must be identified in society by their strict adherence to virtue, not by more skilled methods of escaping the consequences of vice.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Flower, People, Tree

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• I am a reader. I am a writer. People assume I do these things to escape. You couldn't be more right. I'm escaping a world I don't like. A world I have no control in. In this world, I am nothing. I am a color, a height, a weight, a number. But in the world of books and writing, I am amazing. I am powerful. I am different. People are better. Worlds are endless. Change is possible. Life is manageable.

  Philip K. Dick

  Powerful, Book, Writing

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• Context is everything. Dress me up and see. I'm a carnival barker, an auctioneer, a downtown performance artist, a speaker in tongues, a senator drunk on filibuster. I've got Tourette's. My mouth won't quit, though mostly I whisper or subvocalize like I'm reading aloud, my Adam's apple bobbing, jaw muscle beating like a miniature heart under my cheek, the noise suppressed, the words escaping silently, mere ghosts of themselves, husks of empty breath and tone.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Reading, Heart, Artist

  Jonathan Lethem (2011). “Motherless Brooklyn: A Novel”, p.11, Vintage

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• As far as escaping and making plays, I have a lot of faith in our line.

  Josh Freeman

  Play, Lines

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• My art teacher had said that if you breathed deeply and imagined something, you could be there. You could see it, feel it. During our standoffs with the NKVD, I learned to do that. I clung to my rusted dreams during the times of silence. It was at gunpoint that I fell into every hope and allowed myself to wish from the deepest part of my heart. Komorov thought he was torturing us. But we were escaping into a stillness within ourselves. We found strength there.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Dream, Teacher, Art

  Ruta Sepetys (2011). “Between Shades of Gray”, p.109, Penguin

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• It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to. Writing is very pleasurable, very seductive, and very therapeutic. Time passes very fast when I'm writing-really fast. I'm puzzling over something, and time just flies by. It's an exhilarating feeling. How bad can it be? It's sitting alone with fictional characters. You're escaping from the world in your own way and that's fine. Why not?

  Woody Allen

  Character, Writing, Exhilarating Feeling

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• Critics are giving marks for originality, acting, photography and scripting, while mass audiences are more drawn to familiarity of genre, stars they would like to have sex with or plots that are more likely to make their dates have sex with them. Reviewers are doing their day's work, cinema-goers are escaping from theirs: this leads to an inevitable difference of response. It is, though, wrong to conclude that reviewers are completely useless. Books, movies and shows may be critic-proof, but the egos and psyches of the people who make them very rarely are.

  Mark Lawson

  Photography, Sex, Stars

  "Who cares what the reviews say?" by Mark Lawson, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2006.

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• But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burdens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord.

  Edward Gibbon

  Political, Desire, Burden

  Edward Gibbon (1869). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.318

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• I think parts of my soul have been saved by my writing, not in the sense of escaping death, but escaping the death of the moment, perhaps.

  Pattiann Rogers

  Writing, Thinking, Soul

  "A Conversation with Pattiann Rogers". Interview with Carolyn Perry, Wayne Zade, poems.com. 2009.

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• I believed, when I entered this convent, I was escaping from myself, but alas, poor me, I brought myself with me!

  Juana Inés de la Cruz

  Poor, Poor Me, Alas

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• And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong. You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it is wept.

  Samuel Beckett

  Heart, Thinking, Long

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “Molloy”, p.32, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. ...Think about it. There's escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, capturing the wolves, taming the wolves. Being thrown to the wolves, or throwing others to the wolves so the wolves will eat them instead of you. Running with the wolf pack. Turning into a wolf. Best of all, turning into the head wolf. No other decent stories exist.

  Margaret Atwood

  Running, Fighting, Thinking

  "The Blind Assassin". Book by Margaret Atwood, 2000.

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• We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds. (36)

  Pema Chodron

  Mind, Monsters, Whole Life

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• Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Running, Money, Angel

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• But nothing was a important as escaping Evernight or the ‘destiny’ my parents and teachers had decided for me. I had only one chance to be free and to be with the guy I loved. I intended to take it.

  Claudia Gray

  Teacher, Destiny, Guy

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• Adam lay perfectly still, little groans escaping from his lips. I looked at the bow, looked at my hands, looked at Adam's face and felt this surge of love, lust, and an unfamiliar feeling of power.

  Gayle Forman

  Hands, Feelings, Lust

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.33, Penguin

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• And yet, over the years I've met so many people like Jared who seem to be more at home, happier, living in a country on of their birth. ... Not political refugees, escaping a repressing regime, nor economic refugees, crossing a border in search of a better-paying job. The are hedonic refugees, moving to a new land, a new culture, because they are happier there. Usually hedonic refugees have an ephiphany, a moment of great clarity when they realize, beyond a doubt, that they were born in the wrong country.

  Eric Weiner

  Country, Jobs, Moving

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• Escaping into a film is not like escaping into a book. Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and imagination, where as you can watch a film-and even enjoy it-in a state of mindless passivity.

  Paul Auster

  Book, Exercise, Giving

  Paul Auster (2016). “Collected Novels Volume Four”, p.102, Faber & Faber

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• There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Fate, Night, Keep Going

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.295, W. W. Norton & Company

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• You don't need to know what you're escaping from to become a fugitive.

  Bella Pollen

  Needs, Fugitive, Knows

  Bella Pollen (2011). “Midnight Cactus”, p.174, Pan Macmillan

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• She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn't considered the misery she might inflict.

  Mitch Albom

  Might, Misery, Consumed

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• Who knows? Maybe they’re right. Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings. Maybe love is a disease, and we would be better off without it. But we have chosen a different road. And in the end that is the point of escaping the cure: We are free to choose. We are even free to choose the wrong thing.

  Lauren Oliver

  Crazy, Love Is, Feelings

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• There is a natural greenhouse effect that contributes to warming. Greenhouse gases trap heat and thus warm the Earth because they prevent a significant portion of infrared radiation from escaping into space.

  George W. Bush

  Space, Earth, Radiation

  "President Bush Announces Global Warming Initiatives". CNN Live Event/Special, www.cnn.com. June 11, 2001.

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• The trick is not escaping your fear, but confronting it and allowing it to drive and teach you. Only by getting to the bottom of your fears can you find their valuable lessons and move forward stronger than before.

  Jillian Michaels

  Motivational, Moving, Stronger

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