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"I'd rather be running the game than playing it."
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"We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also."

"Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives."

"Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running."

"I don't generally like running. I believe in training by rising gently up and down from the bench."

"I was saying earlier that it's really strange - you can almost step outside yourself and observe yourself running, and that's what I was doing."

"When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar."

"Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more."

"I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m."

"The Canadian run can be no different, at least in terms of actual running."
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"But once you allow yourself to recognize necessity, you find two things: One you find your options so restricted that the only course of action is obvious, and, two, that a great sense of freedom comes with the decision."

"To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity."

"All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool."

"There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures."

"The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest."

"Every once in while, a person will do something obvious and direct that is no more than it appears to be. I think they do it to throw you off."
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