“While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.”
Cyril Connolly (1903–1974) British author
Source: The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus
“No one escapes from life alive.”
— Michael Crichton, book Congo
Source: Congo
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