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For me, St. Petersburg is the city that I can never escape because it has this special energy, even a dark energy. It keeps pulling me back.

~Anna Netrebko

Topics: Back Because City Dark Energy Escape Even Keeps Me Never Pulling Special I Can

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You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else.

~Anne Roiphe

Topics: Books Deepening Else Escape Expecting Give Humanity Insight Little Lover Moment More Much Own Pleasure Than Them Without You Your

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We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

~Anne Sullivan

Topics: Chains Cling Commonplace Desperately Escape Existence Imagine Our Selfish Want

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In a world where families are drowning on beaches to escape war, leaving the church because of sexual abuse, or denied access because of sexual orientation, the utopia that Pope Francis desires may be impossible for the church to attain.

~Anthea Butler

Topics: Abuse Access Attain Beaches Because Church Denied Desires Drowning Escape Families Francis Impossible Leaving May Orientation Pope Sexual Utopia War Where World

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'Never do the dishes without music,' my brother Mark once advised me - the same brother who once ate a spoonful of refrigerated dog food to escape his turn at the kitchen sink. And really, it may be the most sensible advice I've been given.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Advice Advised Ate Been Brother Dishes Dog Escape Food Given His Kitchen Mark May Me Most Music Never Once Really Same Sensible Sink Turn Who Without

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I had no agent, and I was getting approached by so many people that I tried to escape for a while because I couldn't believe that world. Photography is not an industry, and suddenly an industry came to me, so I sort of had to accept it in the end and get an agent.

~Anton Corbijn

Topics: Accept Agent Because Believe Came End Escape Get Getting Had In The End Industry Many Me People Photography So Many People Sort Suddenly Tried While World I Tried

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Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.

~Antonin Artaud

Topics: Destined Escape Eternally Hell Hell Is Men Unhappy Who World

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I've always loved 'lived-in' sci-fi. We take it for granted now, but it was a revelation in the late '70s - '80s, when movies like 'Alien', 'Escape From New York', and even 'Star Wars' introduced us to the idea that the future could, in fact, look old.

~Antony Johnston

Topics: Alien Always Could Escape Even Fact Future Granted Idea In Fact Introduced Late Like Look Loved Movies New New York Now Old Revelation Sci-Fi Star Star Wars Take Us Wars York

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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

~Aristotle

Topics: Away Braves Cowardice Death Does Escape Form He Ill Noble Object Run Some Suicide Trouble True While

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The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.

~Arthur Helps

Topics: Advice Enable Escape Good Good Advice Greatest Luxury Much Riches You

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