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Escapism Quotes (page 23)

Milan Kundera quote: "I understood that there was no escaping the memories, that I..."
I understood that there was no escaping the memories, that I was surround by them. (p.30) Milan Kundera
On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself--on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger. Simone de Beauvoir
Ram Dass quote: "All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists..."
All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion. Ram Dass
Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed- no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull. George Orwell
Any task in life is easier if we approach it with the one at a time attitude. ... To cite a whimsical saying; 'If you chase two rabbits, both of them will escape.' No one is adequate to do everything all at once. We have to select what is important, what is possible, and begin where we are, with what we have. And if we beginand if we keep going the weight, the worry, the doubt, the depression will begin to lift .... We can't do everything always, but we can do something now, and doing... Richard L. Evans
To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business—not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but sometimes a means of holding on to the real when everything is flaking away into… rhetoric and plot. Elizabeth Gilbert
Janet Frame quote: "Timmy, who made a daring escape, also made a mistake of paying..."
Timmy, who made a daring escape, also made a mistake of paying the taxi driver with a check made out of toilet paper. Janet Frame
Grim evening at Gabs (windy, black clouds, hideous bungalows, “folklore” performance in the Hotel Chems bar): I can no longer take refuge in my thoughts: neither in Paris nor traveling. No escape. Roland Barthes
Missing someone is a vague, unpleasant sensation, like gnawing anxiety. It isn't as concrete as grief, but it's just as pervasive and there's no escaping it. Sue Grafton
Larry McMurtry quote: "A man that will go along with six killings is making his..."
A man that will go along with six killings is making his escape a little slow. Larry McMurtry
I am a quiet man. I tend to think things through and try not to say too much. But here I am, saying perhaps too much. But there are these feelings inside me which need badly to escape, I guess. And this makes me feel relieved because one of my big concerns these past few years is that I've been losing my ability to feel things with the same intensity- the way I felt when I was younger. It's scary- to feel your emotions floating away and just not caring. I guess what's really scary is not... Doug Coupland
I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. We find so many people impatient to talk. All this talking can hardly be said to be of any benefit to the world. It is so much waste of time. My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth. Mahatma Gandhi
The creative process requires more than reason. Most original thinking isn't even verbal. It requires 'a groping experimentation with ideas, governed by intuitive hunches and inspired by the unconscious.' The majority of business men are incapable of original thinking because they are unable to escape from the tyranny of reason. Their imaginations are blocked. David Ogilvy
My job was to make sure that my pain was not visible to the audience. They came to escape their troubles, not to be drawn into my own pain. Scott Hamilton
Abraham Lincoln quote: "you can't escape tomorrow's responsibilities by evading it today"
you can't escape tomorrow's responsibilities by evading it today Abraham Lincoln

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