"I'd like to get away from earth awhile / And then come back to it and begin over."
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"Whenever he was in company he wanted to get away, and whenever he was alone he wanted company."
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"Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do."
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"I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated."
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"Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself."
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"People ask me where I go to get away and I say, 'home'"
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"I just happen to be a sucker for humor. So anywhere I can sneak in something that I find potentially interesting or funny I do it as much as I can get away with."
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"He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away."
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"You can’t get away from yourself, but you can get yourself out of the way."
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"Never run from one such as me, female. You will no’ get away - and we like it."
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"The thing that was important to me about Hemingway at the time was that Hemingway taught me that you could be a writer and get away with it."
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