Quotes About Escapism

But there is something other than entertainment which one derives from reading in bed: a particular quality of privacy. Reading in bed is a self-centred act, immobile, free from ordinary social conventions, invisible to the world, and one that, because it takes place between the sheets, in the realm of lust and sinful idleness, has something of the thrill of things forbidden.

The need for frequent chemical vacations from intolerable selfhood and repulsive surroundings will undoubtedly remain. What is needed is a new drug which will relieve and console our suffering species without doing more harm in the long run than it does good in the short.

After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one's mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking

Punctured, utterly deflated, he dropped into a chair and, covering his face with his hands, began to weep. A few minutes later, however, he thought better of it and took four tablets of soma. Upstairs in his room the Savage was reading Romeo and Juliet.

Fui y seré me ponen triste ...; tomo un gramo (de soma) y sólo soy.

Gastamos actualmente en bebidas y tabaco más de lo que gastamos en educación. Esto,desde luego, no es sorprendente. El afán de escapar de sí mismo y del ambiente se halla en la mayoría de nosotros casi todo el tiempo.

Swallowing half an hour before closing time, that second dose of soma had raised a quite impenetrable wall between the actual universe and their minds. Bottled, they crossed the street; bottled, they took the lift up to Henry's room on the twenty-eight floor.

The soma tablets within reach of her hand -- there she remained, and yet wasn't there at all, was all the time away, infinitely far away, on holiday.

In the end she persuaded him to swallow fou tablets of soma. Five minutes later roots and fruits were abolished; the flower of the present rosily blossomed.

For unrestricted use the West has permitted only alcohol and tobacco. All the other chemical Doors in the Wall are labeled Dope, and their unauthorized takers are Fiends. We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising. The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.

Don't think of him.' 'I can't help it.' 'Take soma, then.' 'I do.' 'Well, go on.' 'But in the intervals I still like him. I shall always like him.

Until you've got your mouth full of cocaine, you don't know what kissing is. One kiss goes on from phase to phase like one of those novels by Balzac and Zola and Romain Rolland and D. H. Lawrence and those chaps. And you never get tire. You're on fourth speed all the time, and the engine purrs like a kitten, a big white kitten with the stars in its whiskers.

She craves romance. She dreams that she is the heroine of every book she reads.

Oh, woe to the woman who sticks her nose in a book and forgets that real life is not always destined for Happily Ever After.

Certainly no corporation in the world is better than Nick-believe then the Walt Disney Company, which had built this town of celebration in large part as a way to sell off nearly 5000 acres deemed unsuitable for yet another addition to its nearby theme parks. The company is made attractions, Disneyland and what Disney World or marvels of escapism.

Fiction Is My Addiction

One of the advantages of reading books is that you get to play with someone else's imaginary friends, at all hours of the night.

Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.

Beer may cause you to digress - and lead a happier life.

Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.

I think I'm a bit of a dreamer. I don't like the reality of life to impinge much on my life.

And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.

What I like about The Sims is that I don't have a normal life at all, so I play this game where these people have these really boring, mundane lives. It's fun.

Some of my favorite places I have been in my life exist only in dreams.