#escaping

Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth. ↗

— Edith Piaf

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Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things. ↗

— James Robinson

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I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me. ↗

— Charlie Hunnam

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Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

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In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

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My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me. ↗

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

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One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education. ↗

— Chris Van Hollen

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

— Hugh MacDiarmid

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Laine slowly rolled out of bed. The queen size was one of the few new things in the house. But now, even the new bed felt tainted. It was an inner-spring monument to lies, a petri dish of mendacity she had shared with her faithless husband, and shared now with creeping dreams that flew from the light but left harsh scratches and diseased black feathers. Laine promised herself that, as soon as, she could, she would rid herself of this house, this bed, her clothes, her jewelry - everything but the flesh she lived in. She would scrub herself clean and flee to start a new life whose first and only commandment would be: Never let thyself be lied to again. ↗

— Stephen M. Irwin

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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

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