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Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.

~Clive Bell

Topics: Aesthetic Alliance Art Between Circumstance Ecstasy Escape Family Means Men Mind Rapture Religion Religious Roads Similar States Then Two Which

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The thing about rock is that people are not just interested in bands because of where they want to go. It's where they want to escape from that matters.

~Colin Greenwood

Topics: About Bands Because Escape Go Interested Just Matters People Rock Thing Want Where

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The fantasy genre is so in at the moment. Viewers want to escape from their lives and watch something that is so separate from their everyday existence. People have always wanted to escape their lives - that's why they go to movies and the theatre.

~Colin Morgan

Topics: Always Escape Everyday Existence Fantasy Genre Go Lives Moment Movies People Separate Something Theatre Viewers Want Wanted Watch Why

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I think a joke is a form of truth-telling. A good joke that's absurd contains elements of our daily darkness and also a possibility to escape that darkness. So, for me, humor is an attempt to capture everyday tragedy and everyday hopeful moments that we experience all of the time.

~Colson Whitehead

Topics: Absurd Also Attempt Capture Contains Daily Darkness Elements Escape Everyday Experience Form Good Hopeful Humor Joke Me Moments Our Possibility Think Time Tragedy I Think

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It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.

~Comte De Lautreamont

Topics: Alliance Could Escape Evil Form Good Gravity Impossible Laws Power Stone Stronger Than Will

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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

~Comte De Lautreamont

Topics: Action Aim Between Captured Contradiction Distinguish Down Educate Escape Forget Makes Me Mind Myself Nothingness Only Remember Strength Thought Thoughts Times Which Write I Write

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One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the early 20th century, especially his escape from the Chinese water torture cell, represented triumph over suffocation, drowning, disorientation and helplessness.

~Criss Angel

Topics: Art Because Cell Century Chinese Demonstrations Drowning Early Escape Fears Harry He Helplessness His Icon Inspirations Our Over Primal Remains Torture Triumph Water 20Th Century

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Houdini connected to people on an emotional level so that when he would escape that straight jacket it wasn't about the straight jacket. It was about people looking at it and escaping poverty. When you have that it's the truest form of magic.

~Criss Angel

Topics: About Connected Emotional Emotional Level Escape Escaping Form He Jacket Level Looking Magic People Poverty Straight Truest Would You

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In times of crisis, different people react in different ways. Some might try to escape. Others might attempt to batten down the hatches and ride out the storm in a safe haven.

~Cullen Bunn

Topics: Attempt Crisis Different Different People Different Ways Down Escape Haven Might Others Out People React Ride Safe Safe Haven Some Storm Times Try Ways

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I think in the world we need more comedy. I wish so much that we could embrace that side of us more. I love to escape through watching comedy, and I wish for more of that in the future.

~Cynthia Stevenson

Topics: Comedy Could Embrace Escape Future Love More Much Need Side Think Through Us Watching Wish World I Think I Love I Wish

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