It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.
Time spent doing whatever it is you do to escape your daily life would be better spent acquiring a life that needs no escape.
Sometimes Geraldine feels like she can drive forever. Maybe that’s partially why she took a job at Milo General Motors. Driving is the best means of escape that the human race has, at least, that’s he...
Art helps you connect to the world, not escape from it. That is the difference between art and entertainment.
I had drunk myself to oblivion,Stepped from the room into a dreamless slumber,My consciousness had parted ways,Taking a well-earned vacation.
The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.
There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very far from escapism, in fact you might say that science fiction is esc...
To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety tha...
Haven't you noticed, too, on the part of nearly everyone you know, a growing rebellion against the present? And an increasing longing for the past? I have. Never before in all my long life have I hear...
It may be escapist, but if I have a choice between watching the news or reading a book which gets me to see the world through different eyes, I will always choose the latter!
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as do the ordinary people, but to fulfill it in its...
It's all about escapism. That's essentially what all movies are about. It's a vicarious thrill.
Often the most tricky questions are the ones we secretly know the answers of.What are you running from?What are you waiting for?
To hide away from the world whose loveless heart has gone astrayand its inhabitants what could be a safer place than my imagination?
Whenever I come across someone speaking negatively about escapism or looking down on those who seek a temporary escape from this world, I can't help but look at them as absolute fools. To deny someone...
If fiction and fantasy books are escapism, then let an author write them so as to better equip the reader to face reality by the end.
Thus he spent his whole life searching for his own truth, but it remained hidden to him because he had learned at a very young age to hate himself for what his mother had done to him. (...) But not on...
The more unsettled and unbalanced we feel, the more quickly and recklessly we are likely to fall in love.
Relatable escapism can only be achieved using facets of the real world.
Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
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