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• Saw so much of the wickedness of my heart that I longed to get away from myself...I felt almost pressed to death with my own vileness. Oh what a body of death is there in me...Oh the closest walk with God is the sweetest heaven that can be enjoyed on earth!

  David Brainerd

  Heart, Heaven, Wickedness

  David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.63

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• "Getting away from it all," many people want that, and of course ultimately the only way to get away from it all is to go within, now.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Escaping, Self, People

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Jul 14, 2011

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• Art is whatever you can get away with.

  John Cage

  Art, Art Is

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• I don't care about the little guy. I just hate the big guy. I hate big smug people who think they can get away with things.

  Lee Child

  Hate, Thinking, People

  Lee Child (2015). “The Essential Jack Reacher, Volume 1, 7-Book Bundle: Persuader, The Enemy, One Shot, The Hard Way, Bad Luck and Trouble, Nothing to Lose, Gone Tomorrow”, p.236, Delacorte Press

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• I can get away before the storm hits. Away from a world in which opiates have become the religion of the masses.

  Neil Gaiman

  Storm, Opiates, World

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• Everyone things children are sweet as Necco Wafers, but I've lived long enough to know the truth: kids are rotten. The only difference between grown-ups and kids is that grown-ups go to jail for murder. Kids get away with it.

  Jennifer L. Holm

  Sweet, Children, Kids

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• Do you always get away with the outrageous?" "Mostly. Are you always s beautiful in the morning?" "Don't waste your charm." "It's all right, I have more.

  Nora Roberts

  Beautiful, Morning, Waste

  Nora Roberts (2012). “Tempting Fate: The MacGregors”, p.37, Penguin

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• He takes out a cigarette and offers one to me. "I try not to indulge. It's a filthy habit," I tell him. "I love that word filthy. I love the way you force it out of your mouth like it's some kind of vermin you want to get rid of." "You've had vermin in your mouth?" "You're mean in that way, you know. You don't let anyone get away with pathetic analogies.

  Melina Marchetta

  Mean, Trying, Analogies

  Melina Marchetta (2003). “Saving Francesca”

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• Get away from my ex-girlfriend, you moany little whinge-bag.' Caelen took a deep breath, like he was in pain, and stood up. His voice was low, guttural. 'I was hoping I'd get the chance to kill you.' 'You won't be killing anyone, you sad little emo git.' 'You've stood in the way of our love for long enough.' 'Just listening to you makes me want to top myself, you self-pitying Paranormal Romance novel reject.' Caelen glared. 'Stop insulting me.' 'Why? If you cry will your mascara run?

  Derek Landy

  Running, Girlfriend, Emo

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• Nothing like trapping the gentlemen where they couldn't get away.

  Julia Quinn

  Gentleman

  Laurie Paige, Julia Quinn (2015). “Something to Hide”, p.45, Harlequin

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• People do lie to themselves, and they get away with it because every action affirms and reaffirms their perception. That's the power of the human mind. that's the power of thought, which is nothing more- and nothing less- than energy. And when you have a particularly powerful mind, extraordinary things can happen.

  Vicki Pettersson

  Powerful, Lying, People

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• sad things are beautiful only from a distance therefore you just want to get away from them from a distance of one hundred and thirty years ....i'm going to distance myself until the world is beautiful

  Tao Lin

  Beautiful, Distance, Years

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• Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.

  John Fowles

  Art, Murder, Window

  John Fowles (1980). “The collector”, Dell Pub Co

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• The dead think they can get away with anything because you'll feel sorry for them. If you play cards with the dead, make sure you deal and don't let them buy you drinks. They'll slip you a formaldehyde roofie and pry the gold fillings out of your teeth.

  Richard Kadrey

  Sorry, Thinking, Play

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• We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of our mind knows it is not so, and is a mere excuse to allow us to indulge in what we believe we can get away with. A world without values quickly becomes a world without value.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Believe, Indulge In, Challenges

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• I had no interests. I had no interest in anything. I had no idea how I was going to escape. At least the others had some taste for life. They seemed to understand something that I didn’t understand. Maybe I was lacking. It was possible. I often felt inferior. I just wanted to get away from them. But there was no place to go. Suicide? Jesus Christ, just more work. I felt like sleeping for five years but they wouldn’t let me.

  Charles Bukowski

  Suicide, Jesus, Sleep

  "Ham On Rye". Book by Charles Bukowski, 1982.

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• What makes humans human is precisely that they do not know the future. That is why they do the fateful and amusing things they do: who can say how anything will turn out? Therein lies the only hope for redemption, discovery, and-let’s be frank—fun, fun, fun! There might be things people will get away with. And not just motel towels. There might be great illicit loves, enduring joy, faith-shaking accidents with farm machinery. But you have to not know in order to see what stories your life’s efforts bring you. The mystery is all.

  Lorrie Moore

  Fun, Lying, Discovery

  Lorrie Moore (2010). “The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore”, p.259, Faber & Faber

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• I get that rush that comes when you know you're doing something wrong and are getting away with it, like stealing from the school cafeteria of getting tipsy at a family holiday without anyone knowing it.

  Lauren Oliver

  School, Holiday, Knowing

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.30, Harper Collins

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• Excuse me, Abigail, but whose shift did she get away during?' Townsend asked with a glare. 'Excuse me, Townsend, but who was supposed to booby-trap the doors?' 'I'm an agent of Her Majesty's Secret Service,' Townsend said, indignant. 'I do not do booby traps.

  Ally Carter

  Doors, Secret, Majesty

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• The secret to getting away with lying, is believing with all your heart. That goes for lying to yourself even more so than lying to another.

  Elizabeth Bear

  Lying, Believe, Heart

  "Fictional character: Emily Prentiss". "Criminal Minds". Season 6, Episode 18: "Lauren", March 16, 2011.

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• Her body was a prison, her mind was a prison. Her memories were a prison. The people she loved. She couldn't get away from the hurt of them. She could leave Eric, walk out of her apartment, walk forever if she liked, but she couldn't escape what really hurt. Tonight even the sky felt like a prison.

  Ann Brashares

  Hurt, Memories, Sky

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.74, Random House

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• We were always getting away with something, which implied that someone was always watching us, which meant that we were not alone in this world.

  Miranda July

  Mean, World, Implied

  "Something That Needs Nothing". www.newyorker.com. September 18, 2006.

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• You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you'll do next.

  Dean Koontz

  Play, Imagination, Live Your Life

  Dean Koontz (2014). “Odd Thomas: You Are Destined to Be Together Forever (Short Story)”, p.5, Bantam

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• I should have liked to have had him beside me in a glass coffin, so that I could watch him all the time and he would not have been able to get away from me.

  Angela Carter

  Glasses, Should Have, Watches

  Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get away.

  David Levithan

  Hurt, Pride, Together

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.59, Egmont UK

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