“The mind can be a crazy monkey that is always dying to escape from the moment.” — Rolf Potts, Marco Polo Didn’t Go There
Tag: escapism
Quote of the Day
“I decided to go to the movies. I didn’t really care what was playing; I just wanted the sense of relief when the lights fade out and the world dissolves, the slight confusion when they are turned back up and it reassembles itself.” — Hernan Diaz, The Stay, The Paris Review (Winter 2018)
Quote of the Day
“I haven’t come to the theatre to hear about other people’s problems. I’ve come to be taken out of myself and preferably not put back again.” — Michael Frayn, Noises Off
Quote of the Day
“Most lead lives at worst so painful, at 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 principle appetites of the soul.” — Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception
Quote of the Day
“People have learned to escape reality very well but too often lose their way back.” — Eugene J. Martin, Annotated Drawings by Eugene J. Martin: 1977-1978
The Reality of Escapist Entertainment
It’s human nature. I wonder about a society where the latest happenings of the shows are news.
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