"I have to say I do read partly for escapism. Why can't I escape and learn something?"

-- Christopher Bollen

#Escapism Quotes

“I believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly; to keep all you can, and to give away all you can.”
“We shouldn't have all these campaigns to get the Birmingham Six released if they'd been hanged. They'd have been forgotten and the whole community would be satisfied.”
“A visionary is someone who can see the future, or thinks he sees the future. In my case, I use it and it comes out right. That doesn't come from daydreams or dreams, but it comes from knowing the market and knowing the world and knowing people really well and knowing where they're going to be tomorrow.”
“Pray with your intelligence. Bring things to God that you have thought out and think them out again with Him. That is the secret of good judgment.”
“I'm not bound to be in aviation at all. I'm here only because I love the sky and flying more than anything else on earth. Of course there's danger; but a certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life. I don't believe in taking foolish chances' but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.”
“Haste, the great enemy.”
“I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”

Source : "The Beginning of the End" by Peter Hershey, (p. 109), 2004.
“The secret is not to dream," she whispered. "The secret is to wake up. Waking up is harder. I have woken up and I am real. I know where I come from and I know where I'm going. You cannot fool me any more. Or touch me. Or anything that is mine.”

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