#cape

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

#another #consider #entertainment #escape #form

At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#children #debts #escape #fewer #fiction

Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#escape #every #find #learn #life

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

#art form #because #cinema #clear #difficult

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#drudgery #escape #every #every day #i

The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#argument #being #escape #face #gracefully

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#classical #consider #education #escape #fool

The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice. ↗

— Arthur Helps

#enable #escape #good #good advice #greatest

Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there. ↗

— Hugh Hefner

#around #board #came #england #escape

Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes. ↗

— Keith Henson

#best #captured #dying #escape #fighting