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Escape Quotes by David Mitchell
- Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.
- Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book. Well, Mumsy, no, not really. Your beloved large-print sagas of rags, riches, and…
- Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.
More Escape Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the… — Samuel Johnson
- The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks… — Marcus Aurelius
- Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture… — Diane Ackerman
- The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it.… — Wendell Berry
- God, if ever I have come close to wanting to commit suicide, it is now, with the groggy sleepless blood dragging through… — Sylvia Plath
- It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no person can sincerely try to help another without helping… — Ralph Waldo Emerson