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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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• 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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• The thing you do is escape from them by immersing myself in the character you’re playing.

  Pia Zadora

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• If you think you are free, there’s no escape.

  Unknown

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• I spent my childhood in an imaginary world – probably because I needed an escape. I think that’s one of the reasons people have imaginations – because they can’t maintain existence here.

  Rickie Lee Jones

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• He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping.

  Thomas Brooks

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• I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not… well, it seemed not real, but very detailed and meticulous, bizarre.

  Richard Foreman

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