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• There are reasons people seek escape in books, and one of those reasons is that the boundary of what can happen is beyond what we do – or would want to see in real life.

  James Patterson

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• For me, horror movies are a real escape.

  Lena Headey

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• I’ll tell you why I like writing: it’s just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it’s also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It’s pretty old-fashioned, but it’s fun.

  Barry Hannah

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• I want to make it clear: it’s not that I hate mainstream cinema. It’s perfectly fine. There are a lot of people who need to escape, because they are in very difficult situations, so they have the right to escape from the world. But this has nothing to do with an art form.

  Michael Haneke

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• For me, reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.

  Geri Halliwell

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  My actions are my only true belongings: I cannot escape their consequences. My actions are the ground on which I stand.

  Gautama Buddha

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• I feel that good fantasy will always be in demand. I think children especially need literature that helps them escape from the real world, which is very scary to them right now.

  R. L. Stine

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• Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.

  Wallace Shawn

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• You can’t escape this feeling of disintegration. The world is fragile. But you also can’t let it ruin your life. I’m actually a pretty composed person. I guess people imagine I spend my life thinking about crazy, sinister things but I don’t, really. It’s not like I’m trying to exorcise any demons.

  Michael Shannon

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• We seek to get away from it all when it is only a part that is giving us trouble.

  Shraga Silverstein

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• We cannot get away from it all; we are “it all.”

  Shraga Silverstein

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• Escape literature, like most escape media, generally proves to be a greater bondage than that which has been escaped from.

  Shraga Silverstein

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  Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.

  Seth Godin

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• The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

  Wendell Berry

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• There is no escape – we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

  Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr.

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• Movies are about escape.

  George A. Romero

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• I could easily escape to a hotel for a weekend and do absolutely nothing.

  David Boreanaz

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• Every person should have their escape route planned. I think everyone has an apocalypse fantasy, what would I do in the event of the end of the world, and we just basically – me and Nick – said what would we do, where would we head?

  Simon Pegg

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• There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.

  Thomas Clarkson

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• Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.

  Gary Gygax

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