Escape

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We gotta get out while we're young
'Cause tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.

Bruce Springsteen

Born to Run (song)

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Topic

Escape Adventure

Speaker

Bruce Springsteen

Source

Born to Run (song) Born to Run (album)

Medium

Song

Genre

Rock music

Language

English

Time

1975 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Springsteen, Bruce. "Born to Run." Born to Run. Columbia Records, 1975.

I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can't stand it. I been there before.

Mark Twain

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Topic

Escape Wide open spaces

Author

Mark Twain

Source

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Medium

Novel

Genre

Children's literature Adventure novel

Language

English

Time

1884 1880s 19th century

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Original Citation

Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. London: Chatto & Windus, 1884, ch. 43.

Current Citation

Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, edited by R. Kent Rasmussen. Penguin Classics, 2014, ch. 43.

Dear God, make me a bird. So I could fly far, far far away from here.

Forrest Gump

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Topic

Escape

Speaker

Jenny Curran

Actor

Hanna Hall

Source

Forrest Gump

Medium

Film

Genre

Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

1994 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Forrest Gump. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, The Tisch Company, 1994.

I wish I had a river
I could skate away on
I wish I had a river so long
I would teach my feet to fly

Joni Mitchell

River

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Topic

Escape

Speaker

Joni Mitchell

Source

River Blue

Medium

Song

Genre

Folk Pop

Language

English

Time

1971 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Mitchell, Joni. "River." Blue. Reprise Records, 1971.

That humanity at large will ever be able to dispense with Artificial Paradises seems very unlikely. Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the 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 principal appetites of the soul.

Aldous Huxley

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Topic

Drugs Escape

Author

Aldous Huxley

Source

The Doors of Perception

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1954 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Huxley, Aldous. The Doors of Perception. Chatto & Windus/Harper & Row, 1954.

A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.

Milan Kundera

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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Topic

Home Escape

Author

Milan Kundera

Source

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Medium

Novel

Language

Czech

Time

1984 1980s 20th century

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Original Citation

Kundera, Milan. L'insoutenable légèreté de l'être [The Unbearable Lightness of Being]. Gallimard, 1984.

Current Citation

Kundera, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, translated by Michael Henry Heim. Harper Perennial, 2009.

Thus it came to him merely to run away was folly, because he could never run away from himself.

Sinclair Lewis

Babbitt

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Topic

Running away Escape

Author

Sinclair Lewis

Source

Babbitt

Medium

Novel

Genre

Satire

Language

English

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Lewis, Sinclair. Babbitt. Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1922, ch. 25.

Current Citation

Lewis, Sinclair. Babbitt, edited by Gordon Hutner. Oxford University Press, 2010, ch. 25.

Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.

Psalm 55:6

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Topic

Flying like a bird Man and animals Escape

Source

Psalms The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Statement Type

Wish

Language

Hebrew

Time

450 BC 450s BC 5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Psalm 55:6).