"I wanted to run away from everything but I wanted to run towards something too."

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Source : Sherwood Anderson (2012). “Sherwood Anderson: Collected Stories: Winesburg, Ohio / The Triumph of the Egg / Horses and Men / Death in the Woods / Uncollected Stories (Library of America #235)”, p.220, Library of America

Sherwood Anderson

#Running Quotes #Running Away Quotes #Wanted Quotes

“The goal is to make something that sounds new and different.”

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“I wake up in the morning, walk downstairs, and just bang on the piano and write about what's going on in the world around me.”

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“the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind.”
“I was exhausted. Fighting to save the universe will do that.”
“He was breathing, which is always a good sign. As gently as I could I picked him up, placed him on the towel, wrapped it around him, and put him in my car. I drove to the emergency clinic, the cat purring on the seat beside me. â€œWhatâ€™s his name?â€ the young man at the front desk asked as my towel and cat were whisked to a back room. â€œUhâ€¦John Tomkins,â€ I said. â€œThatâ€™s different,â€ the receptionist said, writing it down. â€œHe was a pirate,â€ I said. â€œI mean Tomkins. I donâ€™t know about the cat. (...)”
“I have exercise-induced asthma.”
“I discovered that what most people call creepy, scary, and spooky, I call comfy, cozy, and home.”
“No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.”

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