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Aldous Huxley1 quote
That humanity at large will ever be able to dispense with Artificial Paradises seems very unlikely. Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul. — Aldous Huxley · 1954Bruce Springsteen1 quote
We gotta get out while we're young
'Cause tramps like us, baby, we were born to run. — Bruce Springsteen · 1975Jenny Curran1 quote
Dear God, make me a bird. So I could fly far, far far away from here. — Jenny Curran · 1994Joni Mitchell1 quote
I wish I had a river
I could skate away on
I wish I had a river so long
I would teach my feet to fly — Joni Mitchell · 1971Mark Twain1 quote
I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can't stand it. I been there before. — Mark Twain · 1884Milan Kundera1 quote
A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person. — Milan Kundera · 1984Sinclair Lewis1 quote
Thus it came to him merely to run away was folly, because he could never run away from himself. — Sinclair Lewis · 1922