Quotes with escapes

  • Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

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  • Kin Hubbard A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Salman Rushdie In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Ernest Renan No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.
    Ernest Renan
    French writer and critic (1823 - 1892)
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  • George William Curtis Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
    George William Curtis
    American journalist (1824 - 1892)
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  • Sir Walter Scott The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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