Quotes Tagged With :escapism

The only way to truly help most drug addicts and most alcoholics is to—instead of them—change reality.....

I loved books, even as I loved the similar way opium had of transporting a mind elsewhere

Isolation serves as the ideal antidote to the bone-aching stresses of work.

Escapist creativity is that which lacks encounter.

Fiction is just that–fiction. Yes, it is serious business, but it should also be taken for face value.....

Haven't you noticed, too, on the part of nearly everyone you know, a growing rebellion against the present?....

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....

We both knew no bounds to our escapism.

The more unsettled and unbalanced we feel, the more quickly and recklessly we are likely to fall in love.....