Quotes on escapism

long ago abandoned a blind lust written word. Literature sandbox. play — Rabih Alameddine, Unnecessary Woman

An Unnecessary Woman Rabih Alameddine
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children prefer books set real, ordinary, workaday world ever read obs — Laura Miller, Magician’s Book: A Skeptic’s Adventures Narnia

Laura Miller The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia
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book a world unto itself, took refuge. — Alberto Manguel, A History Reading

A History of Reading Alberto Manguel
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Fiction show a different world. take somewhere never been. visited wor — Neil Gaiman, View Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

Neil Gaiman The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
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many bad things happened can’t trust good things. shove away someone g — Wally Lamb, Hour First Believed

The Hour I First Believed Wally Lamb
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walls lined books, many foreign languages, like insulation immediate p — Ross Macdonald

Ross Macdonald
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Dr. Manning said thought first sleeping sickness, even narcolepsy, wha — Henry Kuttner, Masters Horror

Henry Kuttner Masters of Horror
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been, me, world, second world fall back on–a reliable world far hide — Graham Swift, Ever

Ever After Graham Swift
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think pretty much every form fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) — Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman
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escape escapism even know it. Books wonderful things, can’t live someo — Jennifer Donnelly, Beauty Beast: Lost a Book

Beauty Jennifer Donnelly the Beast: Lost in a Book
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