#escape

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

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

We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#even #feel #fire #free #frying

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#eyes #only #others #people #reflection

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#break #escape #go #going #great

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. ↗

— Horace

#been #cannot #escape #once #recalled