"...In the summer New York was the only……" — Edith Wharton
"...In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers..."
More Escape Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,… — Aristotle
- I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact… — Antonin Artaud
- The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in… — Marcus Aurelius
- Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens,… — Diane Ackerman
- In '73 I photographed the cannibals in New Guinea. They treated me OK but they didn't make you feel relaxed...… — David Bailey
- When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. — Julian Barnes
- We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay. — Lynda Barry
- There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. — Roland Barthes
- Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient. — Henry Ward Beecher