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• When you refrain from habitual thoughts and behavior, the uncomfortable feelings will still be there. They don’t magically disappear. Over the years, I’ve come to call resting with the discomfort “the detox period,” because when you don’t act on your habitual patterns, it’s like giving up an addiction. You’re left with the feelings you were trying to escape. The practice is to make a wholehearted relationship with that

  Pema Chodron

  Wisdom, Buddhist, Giving Up

  Pema Chodron (2012). “Living Beautifully: with Uncertainty and Change”, p.36, Shambhala Publications

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• We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Time, Mean, Night

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.107, Courier Corporation

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• We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Teacher, Selfish, Live Life

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• They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

  Steve Buscemi

  Bail, Prison, Film

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2001.

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• She placed her palm over his wound, pressing as hard as she dared. She would stop the blood. She would hold him and stop his life from escaping. She would hold life inside him and he wouldn’t die

  Michael Grant

  Blood, Palms, Dies

  Michael Grant (2014). “Gone Series Complete Collection: Gone, Hunger, Lies, Plague, Fear, Light”, p.37, Harper Collins

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• Now there is no taboo; everything is allowed. But one cannot simply go back to tonality, it’s not the way. We must find a way of neither going back nor continuing the avant-garde. I am in a prison: one wall is the avant-garde, the other wall is the past, and I want to escape.

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Wall, Past, Avant Garde

  "Ligeti" by Alex Ross, www.therestisnoise.com. June 12, 2000.

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• That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world.

  Julie Walters

  World, Actresses

  "Julie Walters: An actress in her prime". Interview with James Mottram, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2001.

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• It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

  Joseph Addison

  Birthday, Men, Thinking

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1811). “The Spectator”, p.234

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• Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education.

  Hugh MacDiarmid

  Bedtime, Fortunate, Principal

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• You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Happiness, Death

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.109, Penguin

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• Novels aren’t just happy escapes; they are slivers of people’s souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp. Reading the right one at the right time can make all the difference.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Inspirational, Change, Happy

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• "Getting away from it all," many people want that, and of course ultimately the only way to get away from it all is to go within, now.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Self, People, Meditation

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Jul 14, 2011

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• I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

  Nadia Comaneci

  Motivational, Sports, Running

  FaceBook post by Nadia Comaneci from Apr 24, 2014

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• Every man builds his world in his own image; he has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. If he abdicates his power, he abdicates the status of man, and the grinding chaos of the irrational is what he achieves as his sphere of existence—by his own choice.

  Ayn Rand

  Power, Men, Choices

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.604, Hamilton Books

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• Black people are the magical faces at the bottom of society's well. Even the poorest whites, those who must live their lives only a few levels above, gain their self-esteem by gazing down on us. Surely, they must know that their deliverance depends on letting down their ropes. Only by working together is escape possible. Over time, many reach out, but most simply watch, mesmerized into maintaining their unspoken commitment to keeping us where we are, at whatever cost to them or to us (Bell).

  Derrick Bell

  Life, Change, Self Esteem

  Derrick Bell (2008). “Faces At The Bottom Of The Well: The Permanence Of Racism”, p.5, Basic Books

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• Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!

  Bram Stoker

  Naked, Bees, Fit

  Bram Stoker (2016). “Dracula”, p.88, Zillmann Publishing

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• Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits.

  Greil Marcus

  Drama, Limits

  Greil Marcus (2015). “Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music: Sixth Edition”, p.143, Penguin

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• I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacation with better care than they do their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Change, Vacation

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 09, 2015

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• Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

  Bell Hooks

  Love, Life, Meaningful

  "Time Spent in a Psych Ward" by Erin Nugent, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2015.

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• To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken it will enter the regions of childhood vision and dream.

  Giorgio de Chirico

  Dream, Art, Common Sense

  "Letters of the great artists - from Ghiberti to Gainsborough" by Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, (p. 231), 1963.

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• In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If he cannot silence her absolutely, he tries to make sure no one listens.

  Judith Lewis Herman

  Order, Silence, Accountability

  Judith Lewis Herman (1997). “Trauma and Recovery”, p.8, Basic Books

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• All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you're made to feel guilty for being human, then you're going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can't escape from.

  Marilyn Manson

  Nature, Regret, Hate

  Beliefnet Interview, www.beliefnet.com. 2001.

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• When you see a man led to prison say in your heart, "Mayhap he is escaping from a narrower prison." And when you see a man drunken say in your heart, "Mayhap he sought escape from something still more unbeautiful.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Men, Compassion

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• You can run but you can't hide

  Emily Giffin

  Running, Marine Corps, Hiding

  Emily Giffin (2008). “Love the One You're With”, p.353, Macmillan

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• What polluters do is raise the standards of living for themselves, while lowering the quality of living for everybody else, and they do that by escaping the disciplines of the free market.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Discipline, Quality, Standards

  Interview with David Kupfer, November 2006.

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