“The Sims is an escapist vehicle for people who want to escape to where they already are, which is why I thought this game was made precisely for me.”
Source: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
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Frost and Fire (1946)
R Is for Rocket (1962)
“Ubisoft, I just want to like your games. Why won't you let me!”
The Content Patch, Episode 183 - Ubisoft's "double bill of delusion"
“He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Recalled in a letter from Joshua Speed in Herndon's Lincoln (1890), p. 527 http://books.google.com/books?id=rywOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA527&dq=%22plucked+a+thistle+and+planted+a+flower%22
Posthumous attributions
Homeward Bound
Song lyrics, Parsley (1966)
“Where opinion is not coerced, people can be made to believe only in what they already "know."”
The True Believer (1951), Part Three: United Action and Self-Sacrifice
Context: The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new; nor can it keep people persuaded once they have ceased to believe. It penetrates only into minds already open, and rather than instill opinion it articulates and justifies opinions already present in the minds of its recipients. The gifted propagandist brings to a boil ideas and passions already simmering in the minds of his hearers. he echoes their innermost feelings. Where opinion is not coerced, people can be made to believe only in what they already "know."