#escape

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Shahrukh Khan

#cinema #escape #india #like #morning

Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very real inclination to give way to dangerous tendencies merely as an escape from realities. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

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I think the more stressful our times get, the more we look for fantasy escapes. ↗

— Jeri Ryan

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Music is an escape for me. ↗

— Tom Scholz

#me #music

I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

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Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people. ↗

— Gay Talese

#lot #me #people #restaurants #wonderful

The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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