"My youth is escaping without giving me anything…" — Ivy Compton-Burnett

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• Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent:… — Russell Baker
• We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means… — Charles Baudelaire
• It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it.… — Joseph Addison
• I'm the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me. — Helena Bonham Carter
• Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping. — Steve Buscemi
• We find it hard to picture to ourselves the state of mind of a man of older days who firmly… — Anatole France
• We all share one planet and are one hummanity, there is no escaping this reality. — Wangari Maathai
• Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals… — Charles Lyell
• I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly,… — G. H. Hardy
• You cannot stop smoking directly because it has many related things, implications. You are tense, and if you stop smoking… — Rajneesh
• Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires… — Daniel Barenboim

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