#escape

The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

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Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

#chance #escape #mental #nose #obliquely

Just because I do what I do doesn't mean I escaped adolescence, all the bumps and bruises that go along with it. ↗

— Anna Paquin

#along #because #bumps #escaped #go

Reading serves as a good escape when you're in the middle of doing crazy things. ↗

— Carly Rae Jepsen

#doing #escape #good #middle #reading

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#care #escape #fills #general #humanity

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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Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it. ↗

— Shahrukh Khan

#cinema #escape #india #like #morning

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

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