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Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I c...

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He ran as he'd never run before, with neither hope nor despair. He ran because the world was divided...

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Some might question whether it makes sense to talk about setting up the experiment and running it ag...

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Marcus du SautoyThe Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science

I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle..the nights i can't remember..the mornings i ...

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I am a good runner. There are many faster, but not so many for whom it has been as necessary to lear...

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Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the cour...

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When Douglas walked, his mind ran, when he ran, his mind walked.

It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.

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Ray BradburySomething Wicked This Way Comes

The father hesitated only a moment. He felt the vague pain in his chest. If I run, he thought, what ...

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Ray BradburySomething Wicked This Way Comes

I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?'There were so ...

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I'm more of a sprinter than a marathoner when it comes to many aspects of life. For example, when I'...

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Scott AdamsThe Dilbert Future: Thriving on Stupidity in the 21st Century

He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-s...

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He removed his unvaluable valuables and dumped his shirt, pants, and skivvies into a letter slot.

In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it.

He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost alway...

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Running in the wind, in the pollen and dust, a flower in flight

That's the funny thing about running. The deceptive thing about it. It may seem mindless, but its re...

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Wendelin Van DraanenThe Running Dream

I wanna say something that I want you to remember for the rest of your life, OK? I want you to liste...

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Here I am I am tired I am tired of running of having to carry my life like it was a basket of eggs

...I couldn't see him anymore, and I couldn't see anybody, and I knew what the loneliness of the lon...

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So as soon as I tell myself I'm the first man ever to be dropped into the world, and as soon as I ta...

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We knew not where we were going. We only knew that we must run, run to the end of the world, run to ...

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The essential thing is to run period!And to do it for a long time and consistently and then everythi...

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Running is perhaps the most fundamental of all sports, and it is economically the least costly to pe...

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Bernd HeinrichWhy We Run: A Natural History

Mr. Schlubb, the pear-shaped PE teacher, sent us all out to run half a dozen laps around a preposter...

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Bill BrysonThe Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

Fleet kept running,” Kaladin growled, getting back under Elhokar’s arm.“What?”“He couldn't win, but ...

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Faster and faster they raced, but no one got hot or tired or out of breath.

O.K. I'm running out of appetite. Let this swirl— a bit like Crab Nebula— do for now.

But I did it! That's the thing—I did it! What will my father say when he hears I murdered a man? Lor...

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Tommy and Scootie locked eyes. Only minutes ago, he wouldn't have believed that he could ever have f...

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If you're spending your entire early 20s chasing the next party,what are you running away from?

Of course it was painful, and there were times when, emotionally, I just wanted to chuck it all. But...

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In the novelist's profession, as far as I'm concerned, there's no such thing as winning or losing. M...

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But in real life things don't go smoothly. At certain points in our lives, when we really need a cle...

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As I run I tell myself to think of a river. And clouds. But essentially I'm not thinking of a thing....

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Haruki MurakamiWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Their hearts, lost in thought, slowly tick away time. When we pass each other on the road, we listen...

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Haruki MurakamiWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Running

I'll be happy if running and I can grow old together.

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Haruki MurakamiWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Running

But in real life things don't go so smoothly. At certain points in our lives, when we really need a ...

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Haruki MurakamiWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Running

One by one, I'll face the tasks before me and complete them as best I can. Focusing on each stride f...

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Haruki MurakamiWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Running

I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long dis...

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Haruki MurakamiWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Running

I just run. I run in void. Or maybe I should put it the other way: I run in order to acquire a void.

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Haruki MurakamiWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Running

People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they'll go to any length to live longer....

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Haruki MurakamiWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Running

For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by ...

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Haruki MurakamiWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Running

The thoughts that occur to me while I’m running are like clouds in the sky. Clouds of all different ...

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Haruki MurakamiWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Running

There are three reasons I failed. Not enough training. Not enough training. And not enough training.

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Haruki MurakamiWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Of course it was painful, and there were times when, emotionally, I just wanted to chuck it all. But...

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Haruki MurakamiWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Running

All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a p...

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Haruki MurakamiWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

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Haruki MurakamiWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Running

They'll torture you for months before killing you if you run" Otis shrugged, as if this was an every...

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Heather BrewerTwelfth Grade Kills

These intellectual guys don't like to have an intellectual conversation with you unless they're runn...

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I wasn't particularly worried; running is overrated anyway, and sport only makes you sweaty and smug...

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Jasper FfordeThe Woman Who Died a Lot

I watched love and life play out in a million ways, but one of the best things I learned was this: Y...

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Jewel (singer)Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story

Children run everywhere for a reason--it's fun. Grown-ups can forget that sometimes.