"One can run away from anything but oneself."
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Running Away
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"Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away."
"People pursue things. As soon as they have them they run away from them."
"If you run away from trouble, it always follows."
"Do not run away, it is cowardice."
"I don't eat anything that runs away from me."
"The hero is the person who's afraid to run away."
"If I'm smart then I'll run away, but I'm not so I guess I'll stay"
"When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them."
"You should despair and run away."
"I got here when I was 12, I found out I was undocumented when I was 16, I became a journalist when I was 17, and all I ever did was write other stories to run away from myself."