E Quotes
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“Escapism and wonder is influence. It makes you feel good, and that allows you to do things. You just keep on moving ahead, and you say, 'God, is this wonderful - do I appreciate it.'”
“Escapism for me can come in the form of someone else's reality.”
“Escapism has value, even if I don't know what its value is, exactly. Maybe it's just part of some healthy way that we deal with the world.”
“Escapism isn't good or bad of itself. What is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to. I write from experience, since in my case I escaped to the idea that books could be really enjoyable, an aspect of reading that teachers had not hitherto suggested.”
Source: A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction
“escapism isn't good or bad in itself. what is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to.”
“Escapism sold books, to be sure, but not nearly as many as were sold by exposing America’s flaws and making the average American reader (and book club member) look closely at his or her most cherished social assumptions. Americans might not be eager to accept integration, feminism, homosexuality, juvenile delinquency, and the drug culture– or to shoulder the blame for the existence of these problems– but they were certainly willing to read about them.”
Source: Making the List: A Cultural History of the American Bestseller, 1900-1999
“Escapism- that's what I like. I'm not so crazy about the reality of everything.”
“Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.”
“Escapists have no right to love, lovers have no need for escape.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“Escapists have no right to love,
Lovers have no need for escape.
When you change exes like socks,
It's a sickness, not a choice.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“Escapology has one thing going for it that probably made Harry Houdini such a superstar in his day and a legend in the present. Everyone wants to escape from something. Taxes, contracts, illness, work, the multitude of burdens that we chafe under are shadows from which we want to escape.”
“Esce dal buio una littorina, bella e disperata come il Sud. È anche lei una bella stella cadente; si porta dietro un soffio di ruggine, erba e salsedine. Sopra il Mediterraneo, poche stelle di nome latino; la geografia del cielo parla arabo e greco. Lo stesso cielo dei Fenici. Sulle navi, i veterani di Annibale oltrepassano l'ombra immensa dell'Aspromonte, avvistano l'Etna in eruzione, girano attorno a Capo Passero, puntano nella notte su Pantelleria. Tornano a casa dopo quindici anni. Devono: Scipione è in Africa, spadroneggia come ha fatto Annibale in Italia. La patria chiama, Annibale parte, e i Romani lo lasciano andare senza nemmeno dargli la caccia in mare. Tutto, purché se ne vada.”
“Eschaton comes from the Greek word 'echatos', which just means the end.”
“Escherichia colia O157:H7 is a relatively new strain of the common intestinal bacteria (no one had seen it before 1980) that thrives in feedlot cattle, 40 percent of which carry it in their gut. Ingesting as few as ten of these microbes can cause a fatal infection; they produce a toxin that destroys human kidneys.”
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
“Eschew all those beastly adjectives.”
“Eschew evil and it`s machinations.”
“Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.”
Source: Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961
“Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace”
Source: Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist
“Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected.”
Source: Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist
“Eschew wicked company and associate with saintly persons. Acquire virtue day and night, and always meditate on that which is eternal forgetting that which is temporary.”
“Escinde vida humana y naturaleza, identifi ca los valores asociados a la
masculinidad con lo propiamente humano, impone un sueño loco de autosufi -
ciencia e identifi ca bien-estar con consumo mercantil en permanente crecimiento
y progreso. Es una noción de vida vivible no universalizable y que no respeta la
diferencia.”
Source: Subversión feminista de la economía. Aportes para un debate sobre el conflicto capital-vida
“esclarecer e sintetizar ideias por meio da profunda fertilização dos espíritos; mostrar, de diversos e importantes pontos de vista, a correlação de ideias, fatos e valores que estão em perpétuo jogo mútuo; demonstrar o caráter, a conexão, a lógica e a operação do organismo inteiro da realidade, mostrando ao mesmo tempo a persistente inter-relação dos processos da mente humana e, nos interstícios do conhecimento, revelar a síntese interior e a unidade orgânica da própria vida.”
Source: THE ART OF LOVING
“Escobar had drawn particular attention to himself by his terrorist tactics—he even bombed an airliner, killing 110 passengers, as pressure to stop his being extradited to the United States. His brutal violence against rivals also created so many enemies that victims formed a paramilitary group to get him. A curious alliance was formed of Colombian police, soldiers, and criminals, and American spies, drug agents, and troops, all after the big guy. Escobar was just waiting to die. Colombian police finally caught up with him in a residential Medellín house, shot him dead, and posed smiling with his corpse. Drug warriors learned a new modus operandi—sometimes it is better to forget about an arrest and go for the clean kill.”
Source: El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
“Escobar, my ex-lover, was shot to death on December 2, 1993. To bring him down after a hunt that lasted nearly a year and a half, it was necessary to offer a reward of twenty-five million dollars and to employ a Colombian police commando unit specially trained for the purpose.”
“Escoffier knew if he could win Sara's heart it would be with a dish made of truffles and pureed foie gras, the one she often doted over. The subtle aroma of truffle, according to the great Brillat-Savarin, was an aphrodisiac. And so, "Let the food speak where words cannot," Escoffier said, making the sign of the cross, and cooking as if his life depended on it, because on some level it did.
When the chef finally knocked on the studio door, his small hands shook under the weight of the silver tray and its domed cover.
Escoffier had changed into clean clothes and now looked more like a banker than a chef. But he was, most certainly, a chef. Beneath the dome, caramelized sweetbreads, covered with truffles, lay on a bed of golden noodles that were napped in a sauce made from the foie gras of ducks fed on wild raspberries, the 'framboise,' of the countryside.
It was a dish of profound simplicity, and yet luxury.”
Source: White Truffles in Winter
“Escoffier set the table. He'd found a Japanese kimono, an obvious prop from some theater production, to use as a tablecloth. Paris had secretly fallen in love with all things oriental. It was red silk brocade, covered with a flock of white flying cranes, and made from a single bolt of fabric. The neckline and cuffs were thickly stained with stage makeup but the kimono itself was quite beautiful. It ran the length of the thin table. The arms overhung one end.
Outside the building he'd seen a garden with a sign that read "Please do not pick." But it was, after all, for a beautiful woman. Who would deny him? And so Escoffier cut a bouquet of white flowers: roses, peonies and a spray of lilies, with rosemary stalks to provide the greenery. He placed them in a tall water glass and then opened the basket of food he'd brought. He laid out the china plates so that they rested between the cranes, and then the silver knives, forks and spoons, and a single crystal glass for her champagne. Even though it was early afternoon, he'd brought two dozen candles.
The food had to be served 'à la française'; there were no waiters to bring course after course. So he kept it simple. Tartlets filled with sweet oysters from Arcachon and Persian caviar, chicken roasted with truffles, a warm baguette, 'pâté de foie gras,' and small sweet strawberries served on a bed of sugared rose petals and candied violets.”
Source: White Truffles in Winter
“Escogemos a nuestros dioses, y los de esta época son estúpidos.”
Source: Cuando giran los muertos
“Escogemos un camino u otro en cada punto de decisión de nuestra vida, y acabamos siendo la suma total de nuestras decisiones. Al rechazar nuestros errores, ganamos una seguridad a corto plazo, pero renunciamos a nuestra identidad con el proceso que nos permite transcender nuestras debilidades y tolerar nuestras vidas dolorosas y limitadas.”
Source: Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
“Escoger un mal cristiano y un buen ateo no sirve para comparar. Ambos son resultado de ciertas causas naturales y la educación recibida en sus primeros años, tienen ciertos temperamentos: el cristianismo promete poner ambos temperamentos bajo una nueva dirección si ellos se lo permiten. Lo que tenéis derecho a preguntar es si esa nueva dirección, si se le permite hacerse cargo, mejora la compañía. Nos comportamos como si la bondad fuera todo lo que Dios exigiera. Pero esto sería un error fatal.”
Source: Mere Christianity
“Escojo a mis amigos por su buena apariencia, a mis conocidos por su buen carácter y a mis enemigos por su inteligencia.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“Escojo recordarla cuando corría, era alegre y yo le daba de comer a escondidas cosas que le encantaban. Sin embargo, también pienso en su muerte. Todo es parte de su paso por mi vida.”
Source: Cómo curar un corazón roto. 10 Aniversario
“Escolhas o caminho que escolheres, não podes deixar de chegar a Casa.”
Source: Home with God: In a Life That Never Ends
“Escolhas te levam a outras escolhas, que deixam outras escolhas para trás. Escolha.”
“Escolher o mesmo amor todos os dias é um milagre.
Porque todo afeto é feito de pessoas. E pessoas são incompletas e imperfeitas _o amor também.
Tem gente que imagina o amor como solução. Não entendeu que amor é construção...”
“Escoltado por olhos de nada amigos, pela tua presença impressa na minha eu prossigo em passos firmes e decididos.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“Esconda o teu rosto no meu corpo.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“Escorro pela tua pele movediça vislumbrando miragens onde me perco a peregrinar pelas tuas trevas travessas.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
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“Escravo do gosto, vivo no desgosto da minha imperfeição.”
“Escrever. (...) Ao longo das linhas, aceitar todo e qualquer pensamento (não tenha medo deles,
independente do que sejam).”
Source: All the Bright Places
“Escrever era a única coisa que me trazia alívio naquelas madrugadas”
Source: Escrita Maldita
“Escrever, método auto-erótico de satisfação solitária produz um escrito, objeto libidinoso ideal.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“Escrever não é mais do que esperar com esperança e sonhar com esperança. A expectativa de algo melhor. Quando eu imagino, sonho e escrevo no papel, estou a criar um mundo novo e posso fazer dele o que quiser. O nosso frágil corpo humano pode estar velho, fraco, ou mesmo jovem e adoentado, mas os sonhos, ninguém nos pode tirar".”
“Escrever, para um escritor, é como respirar. Ele não se imagina fazendo nada além de escrever. Se você é assim, então vale a pena. Mas por que escrever? Nós escrevemos porque precisamos contar histórias. É mais do que uma maneira de comunicar ideias, para algumas pessoas é uma oportunidade para se conectar com seus interiores, criar histórias e levantar questões sobre a vida.”
“Escrever produz um processo de decoerência colapsando meus estados quânticos sobrepostos, somando meus valores vetoriais oscilantes e o ângulo de mistura resultante me impele adiante, me compele a compilar tomos e mais tombos de tomos sobre a realidade.”
Source: Caro Jovem Adulto
“Escrever só faz sentido se formos capazes de tocar pessoas”
“Escrever é encontrar um meio-termo entre dizer e não dizer, entre mostrar e sugerir, repetindo sem repetir e dizendo sem falar.”
Source: Capítulo 41: A Redescoberta da Atlântida
“Escrever é um ato solitário. Quando dois escritores se juntam para escrever uma história de terror pode ser uma loucura. Não se pode pisar numa mina e esperar que ela não exploda”
Source: Escrita Maldita
“escrever é um bocado fazer respiração boca-a-boca ao dicionário de Moraes, à gramática da 4ª classe e aos restantes jazigos de palavras defuntas”
Source: Memoria de elefante
“Escrever é usar as palavras que se guardaram: se tu falares demais, já não escreves, porque não te resta nada para dizer.”
Source: No teu deserto