Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Escape

Books offer an escape, but it is an escape into something larger, not from something larger; it is an escape into hazard, not from hazard. A dictator escapes not by fleeing into a library, but by a midnight flight to the Dominican Republic.

--Harry Golden

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