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Books were my passion and my escape from madness.

Books were my passion and my escape from madness.
– Dorothea Benton Frank

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  1. Words matter . . . They really do. – Dorothea Benton Frank
  2. Isn’t it amazing how much good people can do for each other when you give them the opportunity to help? – Dorothea Benton Frank
  3. One passion leads to another. It’s passion that makes the wheels of life turn, passion for work, passion for pleasure, passion for passion. – Chloe Thurlow
  4. There is a madness that is joy, and there is a madness that is just madness. – Marty Rubin
  5. Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don’t see a different purpose for it now. – Dorothea Tanning
  6. All this time I thought you were reading to escape the world, but now I know, you didn’t read to escape it; you read to discover it. – Brittainy C Cherry
  7. The one thing that we need to escape is our minds, but our minds are the one thing that we cannot escape from. – Anonymous
  8. if the count of monte cristo could escape the chateau d’if, william smithback could escape from river oaks – Douglas Preston
  9. To survive was to escape fate. But if you escape your fate, whose life do you then step into? – Anne Michaels
  10. You’re trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought. – Enid Blyton
  11. It was an endless, consuming nightmare that she escaped only in madness.And then the escape was not complete. Part of her knew, always. – Elizabeth Lowell
  12. And from the coffin of your madness there is no escape. – Angela Carter
  13. How Superheroes Make Money: – Spider-Man knits sweaters. – Superman screw the lids on pickle jars. – Iron Man, as you would suspect, just irons. – Jim Benton
  14. He giggled like a puppy being tickled by a kitten wearing a duckling costume. – Jim Benton
  15. The Destructive Arts are exactly like Martial Arts, except they don’t have uniforms or usefulness and the end result doesn’t resemble art in any way. – Jim Benton
  16. I can’t imagine the scientists wanting me to walk into the lab and start fiddling around with some big bowl of electrons they had out. – Jim Benton
  17. The pain is real. Flowing as a brook beneath my flesh. I am broken, and yet, I still breathe. – EM Benton
  18. I know what that does to a man, to walk the earth with the burden of his sin on his back. It poisons all he touches. – Lori Benton
  19. I know what that does to a man, to walk the earth with the burden of his sin on his back. It poisons all he touches. – Lori Benton
  20. When I sit down and write, I do it to relieve myself of the madness that burdens me so that new words can wrap me in newer, better, madness. – George Ivanovic
  21. Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off. – Rohinton Mistry
  22. Enough madness? Enough? And how do you measure madness? – The Joker – Grant Morrison
  23. Madness breeds madness. – Dan Brown
  24. Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon ’em. – Emilie Autumn
  25. Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man. – GK Chesterton
  26. Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man. – GK Chesterton
  27. You have everything but one thing: madness. A man needs a little madness or else – he never dares cut the rope and be free. – Nikos Kazantzakis
  28. There was a madness in my story, but it was a madness I understood. – Stephen King
  29. It is madness. But sometimes, madness is the only path forward. – Anne Fortier
  30. Jessie had never heard you could inherit madness. She thought madness was something that just happened to people in Shakespeare when the wind got up. – Lynne Truss
  31. He’d never thought of death like that, like it’s some sort of other life that you can hope for, dream of. Escape to. That it can rescue you. – MC Frank
  32. The more you can escape from how horrible things really are, the less it’s going to bother you…and then, the worse things get. – Frank Zappa
  33. It doesn’t matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books. – Jo Walton
  34. Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. – Anatole France
  35. Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books. – Jean Rhys
  36. You’re not allowed to say anything about books because they’re books, and books are, you know, God. – Nick Hornby
  37. And tell them all about the books you’ve read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That’s an order. You can never read too many books. – PB Kerr
  38. Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me the closet to divinity. – Casey Carter
  39. To whom do books belong? The books we read and the books we write are both ours and not ours. They’re also theirs. – Pamela Paul
  40. Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me closest to divinity. – Casey Carter

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