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  1. Arthur Conan Doyle _ Sherlock Holmes: The Complete

    I must apologize for calling so late," said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall.
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  2. Umberto Eco _ Six Walks in the Fictional

    To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative - the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time.
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  3. Heather Demetrios _ I'll Meet You There

    I thought of all the summer evenings I'd spent sitting in the chairs under the trees beside the trailer, reading books that helped me escape Creek View, at least for a little while. Magical kingdoms, Russian love triangles, and the March sisters couldn't have been further away from the trailer park.
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  4. Jared Diamond _ Collapse: How Societies Choose

    The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean - once the island got into trouble, there was no way they could get free. There was no other people from whom they could get help. In the same way that we on Planet Earth, if we ruin our own {world}, we won't be able to get help.
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  5. John Steinbeck _ East of Eden

    The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a different facet of the same thing. But surely they were both intended to accomplish the same thing: the singing, the devotion, the poetry of the churches took a man out of his bleakness for a time, and so did the brothels."
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  6. Salman Rushdie _ The Satanic Verses

    Después de exigir mi marcha, ya no posees jurisdicción en lo concerniente a mi salud.
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  7. Iain M. Banks _ The Player of Games

    Escape is a commodity like anything else
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  8. Anaïs Nin _ Incest: From a Journal of Love

    Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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  9. Cecelia Ahern _ Flawed

    But I can now understand why people read, why they like to get lost in somebody else's life. Sometimes I'll read a sentence and it will make me sit up, jolt me, because it is something that I have recently felt but never said out loud. I want to reach into the page and tell the characters that I understand them, that they're not alone, that I'm not alone, that it's ok to feel like this. And then the lunch bell rings, the book closes, and I'm plunged back into reality.
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  10. W. Somerset Maugham _ Books and You

    To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life."
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  11. D.H. Lawrence _ Studies in Classic American

    Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom.
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  12. Carol Lee _ To Die For

    Deception' is the word I most associate with anorexia and the treachery which comes from falsehood. The illness appears inviting. It would seem to offer something to those unwary or unlucky enough to suffer from it - friendship, a get-out, or a haven - when, in fact, it is a trap.
    book-quoteescapeillnessself-deception
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