Quotes Tagged With :escapism

I can breathe easier now that the appointments are behind me.I missed them all, through deliberate negligence,Having....

The supposed reality of misfiring synapses, chemical imbalances, frontal lobe anomalies and the like....

The beam of light flashed across her own face and she thought, Yes, me, Khady Demba, still happy to utter....

Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as....

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in....

Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited....

With even the slightest upset, detachment soon followed. I didn’t lose sleep over men, and I was too....

This, it would turn out, is the main thing we had in common: a susceptibility to the brassy escapism....

We left behind the other kids; their path-working, drinking, and being grown up- and rejected all that....

People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.