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This howling mouth, this head which rolls back and tries to escape.
Frederick Leboyer

This is the most terrible thing that can happen in a friendly country if Thai people have to escape from the backdoor of an embassy.
Thaksin Shinawatra

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
Edgar Allan Poe

To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.
Giorgio de Chirico

To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.
John Mortimer

To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two.
Sheri S. Tepper

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
Aristotle

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Thomas Mann

We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.
Raoul Vaneigem

We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.
Michael Eisner


We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
Eric Hoffer

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
Anne Sullivan Macy

We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our great deed of escape from Mama with every other woman in our life?
Frank Pittman

We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid.
Larry Niven

We spend more time developing means of escaping our troubles than we do solving the troubles we're trying to escape from.
David Lloyd

We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves.
Kurt Cobain

What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.
Alice James

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as much as I'd like, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so.
Louise Brown

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