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“All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence.” Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“I’ll be happy if running and I can grow old together.” Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you start to think, Man this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The hurt part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand any more is up to the runner himself.” Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!” Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
“As if by running we won't have to get on with our lives.” Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
“What exactly do I think about when I’m running? I don’t have a clue.” Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“I don't even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.” J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.” James Joyce, Ulysses
“For e'en the bravest spirits run away When they perceive death pressing on life's heels.” Sophocles, Antigone
“My favorite athletes of any Olympics are always the African distance runners. You never have to drug-test an African distance runner.” Robin Williams, Weapons of Self Destruction
“I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future.” Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
“FEAR stands for something else, as well: Fuck everything and run.” Stephen King, 11/22/63
“He was always running or bounding, never just walking. He seemed always at the point of defeating the law of gravity.” Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around—nobody big, I mean—except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to...” J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“I learned to walk; since then have I let myself run. I learned to fly; since then I do not need pushing in order to move from a spot.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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