#escape

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So I pulled the sun screen down and squinted and put the throttle to the floor. And kept on moving west. For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and the oldfield pines encroach. It is where you go when you get the letter saying: Flee, all is discovered. IT is where you go when you look down at the blade in your hand and see the blood on it. It is where you go when you are told that you are a bubble on the tide of empire. It is where you go when you hear that thar's gold in them-thar hills. It is where you go to grow up with the country. It is where you go to spend your old age. Or it is just where you go.


Robert Penn Warren


#escape #frontier #out-west #west #age

Growing up in my family meant ambushes on your birthday, crossbows for Christmas, and games of dodge ball where the balls were occasionally rigged to explode. It also meant learning how to work your way out of a wide variety of death traps. Failure to get loose on your own could lead to missing dinner, or worse, being forced to admit that you missed dinner because your baby sister had tied you to the couch. Again.


Seanan McGuire


#escape #family #humor #death

There, too, she would sit for hours gazing seawards. No tiniest speck of sail that crossed the waters could escape her watchful eyes, and as she watched she dreamed that some day one of these distant sails should bear down towards her, and one should come, in whose hand she would lay her own, and they two would flee to the far East. But as the changeless years went by and brought him not, the girl grew sullen, and a sense of wrong possessed her, for the older she grew, the clearer became her consciousness of a world beyond her, and the greater her longing to seek it. ("The Serpent's Head")


Emilia Francis Strong Dilke


#maturity #romance #dreams

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


#apart #believe #certain #decree #determination

In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.


Richard Stallman


#escape #free #freedom #movement #respects

One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled.


Rex Stout


#anyone #believe #charge #disbelief #effort

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.


Walter Bagehot


#escape #how #interests #only #reality

When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.


Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont


#aim #between #captured #contradiction #distinguish

I must apologize for calling so late," said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall.


Arthur Conan Doyle


#doctor-watson #escape #late-visit #scrambling #sherlock-holmes

Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.


Maud Hart Lovelace


#escape #imagination #libraries #library #reading