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“He was as bold as a lion about it, and 'mightily convinced' not only himself, but everybody that heard him;but then his idea of a fugitive was only an idea of the letters that spell the word,or at ...”
“Let them run ahead. Then Ill have good reason for shooting them down. Sharpeville? Attempting to escape. Attempting to escape from the prison of their lives. Thats the most dangerous crime. It brin...”
“This will be the night I escape. The thought repeated in my mind like a refrain, over and over, and I believed it so hard that I whispered it aloud: This will be the night I escape!”
“The things you escape have the ability to catch you, one or other day! Stop running away! Meet them and defeat them!”
“It was an endless, consuming nightmare that she escaped only in madness.And then the escape was not complete. Part of her knew, always.”
“And from the coffin of your madness there is no escape.”
“I have often plotted my great escape to the beach. To live seaside and to be able to stare possibility and tranquility in the face every day ... I wanted it bad enough to taste. All the while forge...”
“From the trunk of their scheme, choices and decisions sprouted like branches and shoots.”
“The tears in my pus-filled eyes became a thousand little crystals of ever color. Like stained-glass windows, I thought. God is with you today, Papi! In the midst of nature's monstrous elements, in ...”
“But it was fantasy, and she knew it. It was her fantasy, and the fantasy of everyone else who would look at her and at her pictures; and it would stop being real the moment the man with the camera ...”
“As he had once said to someone in England, though he did not care to remember whom, he had liked the sight of the sea because it represented his escape from England. And he had escaped.But she had ...”
“The Orion capsule uses an escape system quite like that of the Apollo spacecraft in the 1960s and 70s: an 'escape tower' containing a solid-fuel rocket that will pull it up and away from Ares I in ...”
“Music should be your escape.”
“Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it.”
“If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it.”
“Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.”
“Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.”
“Ah my friend, if you and I could escape this fray and live forever, never a trace of age, immortal, I would never fight on the front lines again or command you to the field where men win fame.”
“It is possible to escape the complexities, challenges and pace of modern life. All we have to do is close our eyes and picture a quiet world where time moves slowly.”
“There, too, she would sit for hours gazing seawards. No tiniest speck of sail that crossed the waters could escape her watchful eyes, and as she watched she dreamed that some day one of these dista...”
